WE ARE BIOKANSAS
Meet the 2021 BioKansas Board of Directors
Chair
DJ Rezac, PhD
Senior Consultant
Latham Biopharm Group
Vice Chair
Jennifer Radosevich, PhD
Worldwide Director of Research
Hill’s Pet Nutrition
Secretary
Kim Lovan
Executive Managing Director
Black & Veatch, NextGen Ag
Treasurer
Matt Leadbetter, MBA
Lead Commercial & Industrial Lending Officer
NBKC
Past Chair
Karthik Ramachandran, PhD
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder
Likarda, LLC
Sam Al-Murrani, PhD, MBA
Owner, Bimini Pet Health
General Manager, LifeTech Diagnostics
Amanda Bratton
Quality Operations Manager
The Great Plains Laboratory, LLC
Katrin Bridges, MS, MBA
Senior Vice President of Innovation
Greater Topeka Partnership
John Bucksath, EMBA
Chief Executive Officer
KCAS Bioanalytical & Biomarker Services
Melissa Roberts Chapman
Senior Program Officer
Kauffman Foundation
Crissa Cook, JD
Patent Attorney, Partner
Hovey Williams
Charles Jabara
Director, Business Development
CRB
Edward Kremer, PhD
Dean of Math, Science, Business, and Technology
Kansas City Kansas Community College
Beth Montelone, PhD
Senior Associate Vice President for Research
Kansas State University
Jason Neat
Executive Director of Laboratory Services and Operations
PRA Health Sciences
Mike Nicholas, PhD
Founder & Principal
Insignia Strategies
Justin Welsh, DVM
Executive Director, US Livestock Technical Services
Merck Animal Health
Kelly Williams
Director of Lab Products
Labconco
Dawn Wolff, MPA
Vice President of Strategy, Innovation, and Partnerships
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Douglas Wright, PhD
Professor, Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Kansas Medical Center