GORDANA M. DJORDJEVIC

Djordjevic joins Switch after serving as co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Arsenale Bioyards, where she helped establish its R&D infrastructure, IP and early commercial pipelines. As Vice President of R&D at Perfect Day, she led multidisciplinary teams across strain engineering, high-throughput screening, fermentation, automation, bioanalytics and data science. Her leadership drove critical R&D efficiency improvements and COGS reduction. She has also held senior roles at Zymergen, Synthetic Genomics and BP Biofuels and has co-invented several patents.