Michael has spent the last twenty years in biotechnology building, leading and motivating process development and manufacturing teams to support clinical programs from early development to late-stage clinical trials. Currently, Michael is the Chief Operating Officer at ElevateBio, BaseCamp leading facility, process development and manufacturing operations for a broad portfolio of cell and gene therapy products and technologies. Prior to ElevateBio, Michael was the Vice President of CMC operations at Oncorus and bluebird bio as the Head of Technical Operations and Cellular Process Development and Manufacturing Operations for all lentiviral vector-based autologous hematopoietic stem cell and CAR T cell programs