About Our Team

Portal's mission is to develop a universal cell engineering platform. We believe our technology has both transformative potential for research applications and could democratize cell therapies by broadening their biological potential and improving their accessibility. Our leadership team has more than 30 years of experience in private and public company settings focused on clinical cell therapy development and instrumentation. Portal’s deep knowledge of immunology, cell biology and delivery principles is applied across our products for various cell types and applications. Our scientific collaborations team has extensive experience in supporting successful partnerships and delivers the expertise to partner on novel research and strategic projects.

Team

Armon Sharei, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO

Alec Barclay

Co-Founder & COO

Elle Arcand

Engineer I

Andressa Carroll

Director, People & Culture

Carolyn Corbet

Sr. Commercial Operations Manager

Courtney Dysthe, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Partner

Xinyi Feng, Ph.D.

Scientist

Sean Franco

Staff Hardware Engineer

Karen Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Scientist

Sophia Hirsch, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist
Catherine Hogan

Catherine Hogan

VP, Operations

Ain Imchen

Research Associate 

Julie Kim, MBA

Chief of Staff to the CEO

Darby Kreienberg

Research Collaborations Manager
Andrew Larocque

Andrew Larocque

Hardware Engineer I

Kate Maximov, Ph.D.

Scientific Partner

Sarah Meuse

Engineer I

Ani Nejatfard, Ph.D.

Scientific Partner

Arushi Paul

Research Associate

Christalyn Rhodes, MBA, Ph.D.

Head of Translational Strategy
Eleni Rogers

Eleni Rogers, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Gunter Sissoko, Ph.D.

Scientist

Emma Traeger

Marketing Associate
Crystal Tsui

Crystal Tsui

Senior Scientific Partner
Megan Woolaver, Senior Operations Program Manager

Megan Woolaver

Manager, Technical Operations Program

Yi Zuo, Ph.D.

Scientist

Rachel Conover

Alumni