Mytos - Team

Leadership

Ali Afshar

CEO | Co-Founder

First designed lab robots during PhD, and previously started a hardware company. Sits at intersection of science, engineering, and business. YCombinator alumnus, and Forbes 30 Under 30.

Ignacio Willats

Co-Founder

Enterprise sales and product experience at multiple startups. Fosters a deep focus on the customer within the team, and leads sales. YCombinator alumnus, and Forbes 30 Under 30.

Justin Chan

Head of Engineering

Multidisciplinary hardware engineer, experienced in new product development. Former "New Categories" R&D engineer at Dyson, and robotic kitchens at Deliveroo.

Celso Milne

Chief of Staff

Strategic planning, project management and cross-functional project execution. Previously at BCG and Eucalyptus, with a background in scaling operations in healthcare and biotech.

Biology

Stephen Weston

Biology Lead

Experience developing and implementing novel iPSC differentiation protocols during PhD.

Jordina Casanova Vilar

Senior Scientist

Multiple years experience in molecular biology techniques and working with multiple mammalian cell types. Experience conducting R&D that crosses engineering and biology.

Joana Costa

Senior Scientist

Experienced developing at the interface of biology and engineering. Has developed advanced in vitro models representative of human physiology by exploring different technologies such as fluidic systems, bioprinting and soft actuators.

Rebecca Powell

Scientist

Multiple years experience working with stem cells in biotech and academia. Specialised in stem cell differentiation and tissue engineering during PhD.

Hardware

James Cunningham

Hardware Engineering Manager

Hardware engineer with extensive early development and manufacture experience. Has overseen products from early prototypes, all the way through to manufacture in China.

Rob Melling

Mechanical Engineer

Multi-disciplinary mechanical engineer with experience interning on automated cell culture machines and multiple years of rapid prototyping and design for manufacture.

Sam O'Mahony

Senior Electronics Engineer

Multidisciplinary electronics engineer across firmware and PCBs. Led R&D of next-gen smart EV chargers, working across electronics, firmware & higher level software.

Felix Russell

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Research and robotics engineer with 6 years experience in automation across the fields of biomechanics, batteries and now biology. Created a world-leading mechanical knee model during PhD.

Jarrod Greenwood

Junior Manufacturing Engineer

Biomedical Engineering graduate focused on medical devices and bone scaffold design. 4 years experience as a machinist, with proficiency in CNC and manual techniques.

James Ward

Electronics Engineer

Multidisciplinary Electronic Engineering graduate with background in drones, 3D printing and real-time signal analysis. Previous co-founder of a hardware company.

Nicolas Ceballos

Engineering Technician

Computer Systems Engineer with expertise in robotics and electronics. Focused on hardware integration and innovative tech solutions. Brings years of hands-on experience to the field.

Christine Armstrong

Senior Engineering Technician

Multidisciplinary Engineering Technician spanning electronics, mechanical, and thermo plastics engineering. Background in aviation, military applications and biotech.

Pierre Lin

Staff Mechanical Engineer

A mechanical engineer with 12 years of start-up experience in developing precision opto-mechanical processing equipment from concept to commercialisation. Co-founded two additive manufacturing start-ups.

Tony Liu

Junior Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical engineer with a background in mechatronics, R&D, validation, and scaling for consumer electronics and automotive. Previously worked at Matic and Bendix Corporation.

Software

Henry Miskin

Staff Software Engineer

Full-stack software engineer, spanning from firmware all the way to cloud. 5 years experience as early engineer at multiple startups. Also qualified as a mechanical engineer.

Benedict Carling

Software Engineer

Experienced Full Stack Engineer proficient in Typescript and Python, with a background at IBM and startups.

Ben Wilson

Software Engineer

Software/bio-engineer, specialising in working across disciplines on complex systems. Experience in computer vision and statistical methods.

Henry Munro

Senior Software Engineer

Full stack software engineer with experience scaling applications to millions of users across multiple industries. Particularly interested in observability and the intersection of science and technology.

Alex Gokhale

Junior Software Engineer

Full-stack engineer with a Computer Science background. Experience building scalable software in the accounting industry. Enjoys solving problems at the interface of hardware and software.

Product, Sales, Operations

Xian Weng

Director of Product Solutions

Highly-innovative scientist skilled in combining biology and chemistry with engineering to solve hard challenges. Former Principal Scientist developing on-chip blood diagnostics at Orphidia, and GMP experience at Lonza.

Jonathan Paikoff

US Account Executive

Spent seven years in tech sales roles of increasing responsibility before pursuing drug development research. Ready to help your team automate cell culture.

Milo Dundas

Operations Manager

Multiple years of Operations experience in startups at various stages of growth. Previously worked in Q-commerce industry at Getir. Particular interest in linking Tech and Operations.

Advisors

Jared Friedman

Partner, Y-Combinator

Founding CTO of Scribd, now a $100m/yr business. As a partner at Y-Combinator, Jared has coached hundreds of highly-succcesful startups, including many in biotech. An expert on all aspects of running and scaling a company.

Ian Felix

Manufacturing Advisor

Over 40 years experience in successfully bringing products from prototype through manufacture as a leader, including Apple, IBM, and 7 medical devices at different startups. Currently COO at Lassen Peak.

Ahmed Badr

Legal Advisor

Ahmed is COO at GoCardless. He joined GoCardless in 2015 and helped take them from Series B to G, from 40 to 1,000 people and to over $100m revenue. A lawyer by trade, and tech geek by nature.

Ben Haley

Drug Discovery Advisor

20 years of experience focused on technology development for scalable biological discovery and gene, cell, and nucleic acid therapies. Previously a Distinguished Scientist at Genentech, Ben is currently a Full Professor at the Université de Montréal.

Brian O'Sullivan

Sales Advisor

Known as a sales sniper, Brian has built commercial organisations within life science tech start ups and multinational organisations with revenue generation at top of mind. Passion for the digital transformation in the life science market and harnessing data to drive discovery via automation data factories.

Paddy Lambros

People Advisor

Paddy is an expert in People and Recruiting. He built the team at Improbable as a Talent Acquisition Lead from 65 people to 650 people, and then went on to lead Sensat as Head of People and Talent from 20 before Series A, to over 90 post Series B.

Charlie O'Driscoll