SynBioBeta Speaker
Ricky Cassini
CEO
Michroma
May 2026, SynBioBeta
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Ricky Cassini is the CEO and founder of Michroma, a biotechnology company creating natural ingredients through precision fermentation. His work sits at the intersection of biotech, food innovation, and commercial scale-up, with a strong focus on building sustainable alternatives to synthetic ingredients.As an entrepreneur, Ricky has led Michroma from vision to execution by combining deep operational thinking with a sharp understanding of market needs, partnerships, and scale. His expertise spans biotech commercialization, go-to-market strategy, manufacturing scale-up, pricing, business development, and the role of breakthrough technologies in transforming the food and ingredient industries.Before founding Michroma, Ricky built experience in operations, logistics, and business strategy, and has also worked as a consultant and university professor. Across his career, he has been driven by one core idea: using innovation to create products that are both economically viable and meaningfully better for people and the planet.Ricky has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in North America, an MIT Innovators Under 35 LATAM recipient, a Stanford LBAN alumnus, and a Young Founder of the Westerwelle Foundation.
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