Chief Executive Officer

Benjamin is a pioneer in the use of spontaneous disease in animals to model human disease. Prior to Equilibrio, Ben was the Co-Founder and COO of The One Health Company, a YC W’18. A16z bio, and Polaris portfolio company. Previously, Ben was the Co-Founder and CEO of 4Vets in Brazil. Ben is a proud former Olympian who represented the USA in the 2004 Olympics.

Chief Technical Officer

Matthew is a scientist and engineer whose career has focused on the development of sensors and diagnostic technologies. He has a broad research background in both academic and industry settings in biosensors, MEMs, electronics, biochemistry, and biophysics. Previous projects have included developing genetic assays, point-of-care microfluidic diagnostics, optical systems, and microneedle based chemical sensors.

Chief Strategy Officer

Svetla is an entrepreneur at heart, who started her first company at 13 in her parents’ living room. Prior to Equilibrio, she worked together with Ben at OneHealth, a YC W’18 company. Before that she served as VP at Walmart, and was part of McKinsey’s healthcare practice. Svetla has an undergraduate from Harvard and received her MBA from Stanford.

Director Medicinal Chemistry, Helmholtz Institute

Oliver started his career as a scientist at Aventis and was later Head of Biosensing and Chemical Probes at Sanofi before joining the Helmholtz Institute of Medicinal Chemistry as its director in 2016. In addition he serves as a professor of medicinal chemistry at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. He has been closely involved with Professor Scherer’s lab at Caltech since the very beginning of their work on novel biosensors in 2011 while he was still at Sanofi.

Head of Electrical Engineering, Caltech

Azita Emami is the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at Caltech. She also serves as the Executive Officer (Department Head) for Electrical Engineering. She is currently the associated editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC) and an IEEE SSCS distinguished lecturer.

Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics, California Institute of Technology

Prof Scherer pioneered the development of the first monolithic vertical cavity lasers (VCSELs), now widely used in data communications systems. His current work involves the application of microfabrication to integrated microsystems with a focus on developing sensors and diagnostic tools that can be used for low-cost point-of-care disease detection as well as precision health monitoring.