Luis Cascão Pereira is the Head of Digital Biology at IFF, an industrial biotechnology pioneer who first commercialized engineered laundry enzymes in the 80's. Luis is passionate about turning bench-scale research into commercial solutions that solve the world's toughest problems. Under his leadership at IFF, and previously DuPont, Danisco, and Genencor, he managed global protein and strain engineering and biomanufacture scale-up teams that launched over a dozen engineered protein products in consumer care, food, and biofuels, including the largest volume engineered enzyme on the market to enable cold wash detergents and combat climate change. Luis leads the strategy and business opportunities for IFF in Digital Biology - the convergence of AI with biotechnology at scale - combining our application and domain knowledge in protein engineering with key partnerships to build new products. He is an advisor to startups, the White House, and National Labs. He obtained a PhD in biochemical engineering at Berkeley, a diploma in chemical engineering from the EPFL in Switzerland, and is a Harvard Business School alum.

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