Alex Matschiner, Director

Alex Matschiner co-founded BioFactura and has previously served as Vice-President of Operations, COO and CFO. Mr. Matschiner has more than 20 years of industry experience in R&D, manufacturing, and facility design. Previously, he served as Senior Manager of Manufacturing Operations at Human Genome Science (HGS). At HGS, Mr. Matschiner led the design and construction of all downstream manufacturing areas in the construction of HGS’s $180 million commercial manufacturing facility. The facility houses twin 20,000-liter bioreactors, which are among the largest in the biopharmaceutical industry. Mr. Matschiner has also served in similar lead positions during the conceptual design, construction, start-up and validation of the microbial and mammalian pilot-production facilities at HGS. After the completion of the facilities, he led the Recovery and Purification manufacturing teams. Prior to his work in manufacturing and engineering, Mr. Matschiner worked in the R&D group at Human Genome Sciences. During that time he developed the manufacturing process for one of HGS’s lead-product candidates. Before joining Human Genome Sciences in 1995, Mr. Matschiner worked at the Center of Marine Biotechnology where he investigated the enzymology of hyperthermophiles. He received his Master of Science degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Iowa.