.Speaker Group: Lab Facilities West 2023 Speaker

Kaili Chickering

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Kaili has accumulated nearly 9 years of experience in lab operations, with a particular focus on biotech startups for the past 5 years. Throughout her professional journey, she has significantly broadened her expertise, initially handling essential aspects like inventory management, vendor selection, process implementation, permitting, and asset management in the laboratory setting. As time progressed,… Read more »

Lea De Rosa

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Lea De Rosa has been working in the biotech industry since graduating from Drexel in 2014 and 2018 with a BS in Biomedical Engineering and an MS in Biomedicine and Business, respectively.  They have been actively involved in the buildout and/or expansion of a variety of BSL 2/2+ lab spaces as well as implementing 5S… Read more »

Dana Drissel

Dana is Chief Marketing Officer at Kaon Interactive, a B2B software company that creates interactive applications that transform customer engagements. Under her leadership, the company has experienced substantial growth, a European market expansion and has introduced numerous award-winning Kaon solutions, building a fast-growing base of global B2B customers.   With more than 20 years of… Read more »

Mike McCormick

Mike joined Marathon in the spring of 2022 in the newly created role of Director of Service Delivery. His background and expertise in business analysis and customer service at Siemens Healthineers has enabled him to contribute problem-solving and operational best practices to his role at Marathon. Mike’s extensive skills in creating business processes and IT-related… Read more »

Harry Benson

Harry Benson leads a team of experienced professionals in developing and executing programs, processes, and tools with our clients to standardize and improve the performance of their people. A former nuclear-trained submarine officer, he is an expert in organizational culture and structure, along with learning solutions design and delivery with over 25 years of experience… Read more »

Nick Armstrong

Nick has 15 years’ experience in the Biopharmaceutical, Food, and Personal Care industries and has held consulting and management positions in Process Development, Manufacturing Sciences & Technology, Reliability, and Facilities Management.  Innovation and Digital Enablement have been at the center of his focus in the industry to solve simple problems, and problems simply.  He is… Read more »

Anthony Navarro

Anthony is currently the head of facilities and lab operations at Evelo Biosciences overseeing roughly 50,000 sq ft of lab and office space. He previously served in the military as a combat medic, then began his lab operations career in academia. Anthony has worked in many different types of lab environments including biotech, big tech,… Read more »