Ranjan Patnaik

Ranjan Patnaik, PhD, currently serves as Interim CEO and Chief Technology Officer at MycoTechnology, Inc., since February 2023. Previously, Ranjan held the position of Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technology Strategy & Operational Excellence at EVERY™ from May 2019 to February 2023. Ranjan's extensive experience includes roles as Director at DowDuPont's DuPont Knowledge Center and R&D Operations Lead for the Agriculture Division, along with various leadership positions at DuPont for over 14 years, including Technology Director for South America & ASEAN. Earlier roles include Senior Research Scientist at Codexis, Inc., Group Leader at Energy Biosystems Corporation, and Postdoctoral Fellow at Genentech. Ranjan earned a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and holds additional certifications in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning and Open Innovation from IIITH and Berkeley-Haas, respectively, along with a BTech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.