Jessica Richman is the co-founder and CEO of uBiome, a startup that uses big data and citizen science to understand the human microbiome.

Jessica attended Stanford University, where she studied economics and computer science, and Oxford University, where she studied as a Clarendon Scholar, also receiving a Fulbright Scholarship for further study. Along the way, she worked for Google, McKinsey, Lehman Brothers, the Grameen Bank, and top-tier Silicon Valley venture firms as well as other entrepreneurial projects and adventures. Her work has been published in The New York Times and other national publications.

Her work has been featured in Wired, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, NPR, FoxNews, ABC News, and dozens of other media outlets. She has spoken at TEDMED, TEDxBrussels, Partnering for Cures, the American Society for Microbiology, the Future of Genomic Medicine, HealthFoo, SciFoo, Oxford University, the University of California San Francisco, and many other conferences and venues.

As Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Michelle K. Lee provides leadership and oversight to one of the largest intellectual property offices in the world.

Michelle serves as the principal advisor to the President, through the Secretary of Commerce, on both domestic and international intellectual property matters, and provides leadership and oversight of the day-to-day management of an agency of over 12,000 employees with an annual budget of $3.2 billion. Through working to strengthen the intellectual property systems—including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets—she helps promote innovation and economic growth domestically.

Prior to joining the USPTO, Michelle served as Deputy General Counsel and first Head of Patents and Patent Strategy at Google, where she worked for over 8 years.

Before Google, Michelle advised a wide range of high technology companies (from start-up to Fortune 100) on legal and business matters in the Silicon Valley. She also worked as a computer programmer at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab as well as Hewlett Packard's Research Labs.

Michelle received her M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from M.I.T. She has been recognized by numerous organizations for her work including by Politico Magazine as one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Visionaries in American Public Policy” in 2015

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