Q&A: Aindrea Campbell goes small, stepping away from Apple to head manufacturing at Zymergen — where ambitions are big
Over the past 22 years, Aindrea Campbell has worked with just two corporate giants, Ford Motor Company and Apple, with generations of experience between them. But in her new role as Zymergen’s chief manufacturing officer, Campbell comes to a company with years — eight — of history, not decades.
This month, Campbell joined synthetic biology player Zymergen to lead manufacturing for the company’s “biofacturing” process, which ferments genetically engineered molecules to create products that can be used in a range of potential applications, including electronics, consumer health and agriculture, just to name a few. The process, Zymergen says, obviates the need for toxic chemicals and huge infrastructure demands in traditional manufacturing, potentially cutting costs by 90% in half the time.
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