Michael Fero is a Co-Founder and CEO of TeselaGen Biotechnology Inc., which develops software systems for large scale production of DNA assemblies and combinatorial libraries. Michael received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Irvine and has contributed to the verification of the Standard Model at CERN and SLAC. He developed the first human genome scale DNA microarrays with Pat Brown and David Botstein at Stanford. He was a principle investigator at Stanford and the recipient of an NIH Career Fellowship Award for the study of the bacterial cell cycle and essential genome.