Maha El-Sayed, Ph.D.

Maha El-Sayed is an experienced research and development executive. She received her MSc and PhD from MIT in Biophysical Chemistry, and she completed a post-doctoral at Stanford. Maha spent over 30 years in progressive leadership positions at The Clorox Company, a Fortune 500 Company, where she was devoted to developing and deploying both technologies and products, creating innovation strategies, and managing complex programs. She has hands on experience in leading and developing products based on complex chemistry and microbiology. She is currently the Chief Science Officer at Allied BioScience, a biotech company located in Dallas, Texas, with a mission to save lives and reduce the global burden of infectious disease through the application of coatings that interfere with the propagation and transmission of microorganisms we encounter in our daily lives.