Dr. Brad Zamft

Dr. Brad Zamft

CEO, Heritable Agriculture

Brad Zamft is currently the CEO of Heritable Agriculture, which combines artificial intelligence, environmentally-sensitive breeding, and gene editing to drive down costs, accelerate the time-to-market, and unlock expansive, high-value market opportunities in the agriculture industry. Prior to Heritable, Brad worked at X, the "Moonshot Factory" of Google's parent company, Alphabet, where he conceived, initiated, and led the project that would later spin out as Heritable.

Prior to Heritable, Brad was the Chief Scientific Officer of TL Biolabs – a startup aimed at DNA diagnostics for the cattle industry. Prior to TL Biolabs Brad made and managed grant programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E).

Brad received his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research in synthetic biology at Harvard Medical School under the guidance of Prof. George Church.