MEDIA RELEASE
22 August 2023
BiomeBank has announced the appointment of Kolby Day to the new position of Chief Operating Officer at the biotech drug development company based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Kolby is responsible for operations within BiomeBank including overseeing production, quality, regulatory, GMP build, supply chain, product development and licencing.
Kolby joins us from Salt Lake City in Utah where he was Senior Vice President Operations, Corporate General Manager at PolarityTE, a biotech company which develops therapies for wound treatment. Kolby has garnered expertise in developing and commercialising cell-based therapies. His experience in manufacturing, quality, product development and FDA regulatory interactions will be invaluable to our microbiome-based therapies program.
BiomeBank Co-founder and Vice President Clinical Translation, Associate Professor Rob Bryant, said Kolby Day’s appointment brings a wealth of expertise to BiomeBank, with more than 15 years of biotech experience in the US.
“The acquisition of Kolby to the BiomeBank team comes at a critical time for the company, with a pipeline of products in development and a view to clinical trials in the US. Moreover, Kolby’s experience has been critical in spearheading BiomeBank’s move to a larger facility on North Terrace in Adelaide’s Health Precinct,” Prof Bryant said.
BiomeBank Chair, Christopher Hall, said, “The appointment of Kolby Day as Chief Operating Officer will further strengthen the company’s ability to successfully implement our strategies into daily operations in order to meet our objectives. This is particularly pertinent as we establish new GMP facilities in our North Terrace premises based in Adelaide.”
Kolby Day said,
I’m excited to join the excellent team at BiomeBank. The team has earned the world’s first approved microbiome therapy and is leading the field in developing a discovery platform that will revolutionise how microbiome therapies are created. I’m fortunate to join a world-class team to discover and develop therapies targeting the gut microbiome’s role in curing diseases.
Background:
Kolby is an energetic, strategic, and action-oriented general manager with executive leadership experience over 15+ years in biotechnology. He has extensive experience in building teams and companies in achieving developmental, operational, and commercial successes. He’s led development and launch of multiple products in the surgical and cell therapy industries. Prior to joining BiomeBank, Kolby was the Snr. Vice President of Operations & Corporate General Manager for PolarityTE, a leading skin regeneration company. Kolby holds a Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University and a Bachelor of Biology from Southern Utah University.
About Biome Bank
BiomeBank is a commercial stage biotechnology company developing microbiome-based therapies to treat unmet medical need. BiomeBank’s mission is to develop therapies to treat and prevent disease by restoring gut microbial ecology. BiomeBank’s team of translational microbiome experts have developed a world-leading platform that uses a unique combination of co-culturing and advanced bioinformatics to produce therapies of unrivalled functional capability that contain most of diversity of a human gut microbiome.
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JP Media
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