John Cumbers is the founder and CEO of SynBioBeta, the leading community of innovators, investors, engineers, and thinkers who share a passion for using synthetic biology to build a better, more sustainable universe. He publishes the weekly SynBioBeta Digest, hosts the SynBioBeta Podcast, and wrote “What’s Your Biostrategy?”, the first book to anticipate how synthetic biology is going to disrupt virtually every industry in the world. John also founded BetaSpace, a space settlement innovation network and community of visionaries, technologists, and investors accelerating the industries needed to sustain human life here and off-planet. He’s been involved with multiple startups, is an operating partner and investor at the hard tech investment fund Data Collective, and is a former bioengineer at NASA. He earned a PhD in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry from Brown University and is originally from the UK.