founding members
Austin Cole
CEO & Founder
Austin is an evolutionary biologist & protein engineer that built Aperiam's early vision algorithms at UT Austin. Today, he shepherds Aperiam's products into existence by helping a team of chemistry, deep learning, cosmetics, therapeutics, and technical reagents experts exploit Aperiam's protein vision algorithms. Austin grew up in Wisconsin and trains jiu jitsu several times a week.
Guillaume Cottarel
Head of program
Guillaume has over twenty years of extensive experience in the biotechnological sector. He has a proven ability to conceptualize, and initiate scientific programs, leads scientific teams as well managing projects and third-party alliances. His broad technical and business knowledge is being applied to drive Aperiam Bio success. He is a co-author on 27 publications and co-inventors on 16 patents. Guillaume practices hot yoga, enjoys a good tennis game and engages his creativity in diverse art forms.
Russell Durrett
Chief Business Officer
Russell Durrett is the Chief Business Officer at Aperiam Bio. Responsible for spearheading business development and ensuring successful collaborations, Russ helps outside companies build partnerships with us to maximize the impact of Aperiam's technology. He is a cofounder of Genspace NYC, a coworking laboratory and learning space in Brooklyn NY, and has published over a dozen research papers, including several in antibody repertoire sequencing and hybrid long-read de novo genome assembly. In addition, Russell formerly served as CSO at Recombine.
collaborate
With us
Aperiam can deliver hyper-folding variants of a partner's proteins. We take responsibility for every element of protein mutagenesis, testing, & optimization and then deliver three to five mutated proteins for internal validation. Our collaborations ensure that we win together and that Aperiam succeeds only when we create value for our partner.
We want to work with you if these values resonate:
Creativity
New ideas are always welcome
Intellectual Ownership
Everyone here is an expert in something
Discipline
Things get tough, but we're tough too
Focus
Have 50 ideas but think deeply about one
Open-mindedness
Our algorithms change how biological knowledge works
