BioReact’s Executive Team

  • Mitchell Castetter is an entrepreneur and founder of BioReact. Mitchell’s entrepreneurial career started during his undergraduate program at Ball State University, where he created an e-commerce platform paired with a dropshipping technology software. The website was built in 2016 and sold luxury art pieces and high-end sneakers.

    After graduating in 2018, Mitchell began working in the commercial organization of the Danaher Corporation. Through his tenure with Danaher, Mitchell sold over $7M of life science capital equipment and reagents to companies ranging from COVID vaccine manufacturers to synthetic biology laboratories. Mitchell was selected as a champion of the DBS-toolkit from executive management and awarded the Certified Practitioner through the Danaher Business System (DBS) in 2022. 

  • Andrew Chiappetta has a diverse professional background that spans over 10 years. During his career, Andrew has held multiple positions in CMC Management, Process Validation, Life Cycle Management, and Process Development.

    Andrew earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Queen's University in 2013, a Master’s of Biotechnology degree from the University of Toronto, and is a licensed Professional Engineer.

  • Joanna Lipinski, BioReact's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), is an accomplished senior leader in biotechnology, known for her exceptional track record in steering the vision for data management and scientific computing in biotech organizations. With expertise in assembling and leading diverse computational teams, Joanna has consistently demonstrated her strategic prowess by setting direction and executing complex projects in informatics, data science, software engineering, and bioinformatics.

  • Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross is an award-winning computer scientist, entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. He serves as President and Chief Scientist of Gemedy and Managing Director of Reified and has taught at Harvard and MIT. He has received 128 major distinctions, authored 23 publications, been granted 24 issued, pending, and provisional patents, and founded, advised, and invested in 27 technology companies with a combined valuation of over $900 million.

    In 1998 and 1999, respectively, he won the USA Computer Olympiad and the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2003, he became the last person in MIT history to earn a triple major, with bachelor's degrees in Physics, Electrical Science and Engineering, and Mathematics, and graduated first in his class from the MIT School of Engineering with a Marshall Scholarship. In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard, where his research on neuromorphic computing, machine learning, and programmable matter was awarded the Hertz Foundation's Doctoral Thesis Prize.

    A thought leader in artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems, he is a contributing author of the New York Times Science Bestseller, This Idea Must Die, and the Amazon #1 New Release, What to Think About Machines That Think. A popular TED speaker, his talks have been viewed more than 2 million times and translated into 27 languages. His work has been featured in more than 200 press outlets worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, USA Today, and Wired.