- Richard Bailey, Independent consultant
- Doug Cameron, Firstgreen Partners
- Sunil Chandran, Amyris, Inc.
- James Flatt, Synthetic Genomics
- Jay Keasling, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Megan Palmer, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University
- Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford University
- Elizabeth Shank, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- David Weller, USDA-ARS