Kelle Moley, MD

Dr. Kelle Moley is a career physician-scientist obstetrician/gynecologist who currently leads the Reproductive Health Technologies Domain within the Discovery & Translational Sciences, Global Health Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  Kelle joined BMGF in July 2020, with a 30-year history of basic and translational research on reproductive health issues in females throughout the life course-- from organismal to cellular and molecular levels of metabolic, developmental biology, embryo implantation and decidualization, and infectious diseases of the female reproductive tract.

Kelle earned her BA from Wellesley College, and her MD from Yale Medical School. Thereafter, she pursued an Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency and a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology & Fertility at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Kelle then spent the next 3 decades of a thriving research career at Washington University—rising to become the James P. Crane Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vice Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Chief of the Division of Basic & Translational Research for the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Co-Director of the Institute of Clinical & Translational Science for the School of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health Sciences at the School of Medicine. Her research (published in some 150 peer-reviewed primary articles) led to an international reputation along with numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014. She also earned a reputation as a superb mentor to trainees, leading the reproductive endocrinology fellowship program at Washington University until she left academia in 2018. After a 2-year stint as Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of the March of Dimes she left to pursue her new position at BMGF.

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Dr. Lynne U. Sneddon

Dr Lynne Sneddon obtained her Ph.D at Glasgow University studying animal behaviour, physiology and neurobiology. After a postdoctoral position studying weakly electric fish Lynne moved to the Roslin Institute where she began characterising nociceptors (pain receptors) in fish for the first time with Dr Mike Gentle. Lynne moved to the University of Liverpool in 2002 on a fellowship where she has used an integrative approach to understand mechanisms of behaviour and specialises in addressing question in fish welfare. In September 2021 Lynne took up a new academic position at Gothenburg University in Sweden.

Felix Collins

Felix Collins has been in the insect industry for three years, starting at university, where he was studying something completely unrelated (psychology and business). After the EU’s 2017 legislation promoting the use of BSF, Felix became obsessed with the industry and started looking into commercial applications. The black soldier fly has so many different potential benefits and he’s a big believer in exploring more than just protein meal. Felix is currently on the Executive Committee of the Asian Food and Feed Insect Association (AFFIA) and scaling up his colony in Thailand.

Maye Walraven

Maye leads InnovaFeed’s Business Development team, she’s in charge of building value for customers by developing the company’s innovative products. As part of her role, she oversees InnovaFeed’s relationships with various stakeholders across the value chain, from feed manufacturers, to farmers, distributors, NGOs and certification bodies. Prior to joining InnovaFeed she worked at McKinsey & Company as part of the Sustainability and Resource Productivity practice in New York (USA) for 5 years and helped clients deploy sustainable business solutions. Maye has a Bachelor of Engineering from Centrale Paris (France) and a master’s in Business Sustainability from the University of Queensland (Australia).

David Kelly

David Kelly is CEO and chief technology officer of Innovasea, which is revolutionizing aquaculture and advancing the science of fish tracking to make our oceans and freshwater ecosystems sustainable for future generations. He is responsible for setting Innovasea’s overall strategy and leading research and development efforts to design and build the world’s most technologically advanced aquatic solutions.

Prior to Innovasea, David served as president and chief executive officer of Bluefin Robotics, a provider of autonomous underwater vehicles and related marine robotics technology.  David is a senior executive and technologist with experience that ranges from early-stage high tech companies to Fortune 500 firms.

David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.