Co-founder | CEO
Jonas built the chemical and biological evaluations program at the UK AI Security Institute as one of its founding technical staff, and ran the first government pre-deployment evaluations of frontier models with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. He was a biosecurity advisor to the UK Cabinet Office and Google DeepMind, and holds a PhD from Oxford.
Co-founder | CTO
Kenan started his career at Microsoft, where he spent five years building identity and security systems for Azure at global scale. He then spent seven years at Asana, where he led engineering teams and shaped product and business strategy across enterprise SaaS and AI-powered search and retrieval. He now applies that to lead our technology and engineering.
Co-founder | COO
Nick started his career in finance before serving as VP of Operations at HealthSherpa, a Y Combinator-backed insurance-technology company. He later co-founded a plagiarism-detection company used by millions across B2C and B2B before selling to private equity. At BioTrust, he leads the operational, financial, and compliance functions.
Founding Intelligence Lead
Patrick spent 16 years at the FBI, where he led strategic and tactical analysis across the WMD Directorate and Counterintelligence Division. Before joining the FBI, he studied Bacillus anthracis at Los Alamos National Laboratory and in postdoctoral research with the Air Force Research Laboratory, and earned a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of New Mexico.
Gene Synthesis Advisor
Tessa led the Common Mechanism at IBBIS, an international baseline for nucleic acid synthesis screening. Her work spans sequence and customer screening, dual-use risk assessment, and lab automation, including four years at Zymergen and two years as iGEM’s Safety and Security Officer.
Board Member
Claire Qureshi is BioTrust’s independent director and Sentinel Bio’s CEO and co-founder. She brings 15+ years across biotechnology, global health, and strategy, including Novavax, WHO, UN, U.S. Treasury, and McKinsey, and holds degrees from Harvard and Yale.