About Our Team

Portal's mission is to develop a universal cell engineering platform. We believe our technology has both transformative potential for research applications and could democratize cell therapies by broadening their biological potential and improving their accessibility. Our leadership team has more than 30 years of experience in private and public company settings focused on clinical cell therapy development and instrumentation. Portal’s deep knowledge of immunology, cell biology and delivery principles is applied across our products for various cell types and applications. Our scientific collaborations team has extensive experience in supporting successful partnerships and delivers the expertise to partner on novel research and strategic projects.

Team

Armon Sharei, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO

Alec Barclay

Co-Founder & COO

Andressa Carroll

Director, People & Culture

Carolyn Corbet

Sr. Commercial Operations Manager

Jacquelyn Hanson, Ph.D.

Director of Applications
Catherine Hogan

Catherine Hogan

VP, Operations

Julie Kim, MBA

Chief of Staff to the CEO

Christalyn Rhodes, MBA, PhD

Head of Translational Strategy
Megan Woolaver, Senior Operations Program Manager

Megan Woolaver

Manager, Technical Operations Program

Sean Franco

Staff Hardware Engineer
Crystal Tsui

Crystal Tsui

Senior Scientific Partner

Courtney Dysthe, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Partner

Kate Maximov, PhD

Scientific Partner

Ani Nejatfard, PhD

Scientific Partner

Zhihui Song, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Sophia Hirsch, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist
Eleni Rogers

Eleni Rogers, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Darby Kreienberg

Scientist

Ain Imchen

Research Associate 

Elle Arcand

Engineer
Andrew Larocque

Andrew Larocque

Engineer

Sarah Meuse

Engineer

Gunter Sissoko, Ph.D.

Scientist

Yi Zuo, Ph.D.

Scientist

Karen Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Scientist

Xinyi Feng, PhD

Scientist

Arushi Paul, MS

Research Associate

Rachel Conover

Alumni