Leadership
OccamzRazor is an international assembly of biomedical scientists, bioinformaticians, and AI experts.
We value team spirit, humility, and constant learning. Since we come from various industrial and academic avenues, we foster a culture of constant exchange and mutual support to achieve our ambitious goals together.
Dr. Robbie Narang
CEO
Robbie brings over a decade of operations experience in diagnostics development and laboratory automation for drug discovery. He joined OccamzRazor from Notable Labs, where he was Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, he served on the Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee on Health as a Congressional Innovation Fellow and was a member of the assay development group at IntelliCyt, which was successfully acquired by Sartorius. He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology from Tufts University and his B.S. in Biology from the University of New Mexico.
Dr. Katharina Sophia Volz
Founder, Executive Chair of the Board, and VP of Partnerships
Katharina was Stanford University's first PhD in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, earning her degree in just two and a half years. Her experience in biomedical research covers over 16 years working in labs at 10 prestigious institutions around the world, including: Harvard, UCLA, HHMI, Ohio State, TU Graz and Stanford University. For her scientific work, Katharina has been awarded multiple fellowships and awards and was listed in Forbes 30u30 (Science) in 2017.
Dr. Spyros Papapetropoulos
Chief Development Officer and Strategic Advisor
Spyros is a Pharma and Biotech veteran. He is the former CEO at SwanBio Therapeutics. Prior to that, he served as Head of Research & Development and CMO at Cavion Inc. Before Cavion, he was the Medical Director at Biogen, Allergan, and Pfizer. As one of the leading experts in Parkinson’s Disease, he has over 170 relevant publications. Spyros holds appointments as Consultant with Mass General and Voluntary Professor of Neurology with the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Berk Kapicioglu
Chief Technology Officer
Berk joined OccamzRazor from Foursquare Labs, where he was their head of machine learning. Prior to that, he worked at Google and the location intelligence startup Sense Networks. He received his PhD from the computer science department at Princeton University, and his BA from the computer science, mathematics, and philosophy departments at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been published at venues such as AISTATS, UAI, IJCAI, RecSys, and NeurIPS.