George H. Poste, D.V.M., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. has served as our Vice Chairman since our founding in 2008. Since February 2009, Dr. Poste has served as the Chief Scientist of the Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative at Arizona State University, a program that links expertise across the university in research on synthetic biology, ubiquitous sensing, and healthcare informatics for personalized medicine, and as the Del E. Webb Professor of Health Innovation. From May 2003 to February 2009, Dr. Poste served as Director of The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Since January 2000, Dr. Poste has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Health Technology Networks, a consulting company that specializes in the application of genomic technologies and computing in healthcare. From July 1992 to December 1999, Dr. Poste was the Chief Science and Technology Officer and President, R&D, of SmithKline Beecham Corporation, a pharmaceutical company.

Dr. Poste served on the Defense Science Board of the U.S. Department of Defense from January 2000 to December 2009 and is a member of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense as well as other U.S. government organizations to advise on national security policy on advancing defenses against bioweapons and biowarfare.

Dr. Poste has served as a member of the board of directors of Exelixis, Inc., a genomics-based drug discovery company, since 2004. Previously, Dr. Poste served as a member of the board of directors of Monsanto Company, a provider of agricultural products and solutions, from 2003 to 2018, Orchid Cellmark, Inc., a DNA forensics company, from 2002 to 2009, AdvancePCS, from 2002 to 2005, Structural GenomiX, a biotechnology company, from 2000 to 2003, and Illumina, from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Poste also serves on several scientific advisory boards, including Synthetic Genomics Inc., VirBiotech, the University of Michigan Taubman Institute, and MIDAS Advanced Computing Initiative. Dr. Poste is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society, the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Poste is also a member of the Council for Foreign Relations and previously served as a member of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and has received several honorary doctorates from several universities.

Dr. Poste holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a Doctor of Philosophy in Virology from the University of Bristol, England and Board Certification in Pathology from the Royal College of Pathologists.