Claes Gustafsson is a cofounder and has served as DNA2.0's VP of Sales and Marketing since its inception. Before founding DNA2.0, he headed the Bioinformatics group at Maxygen and was project leader for metabolic engineering of natural product synthesis. Prior to this, Claes was one of the first employees at Kosan Biosciences, developing technology for manipulating Streptomyces polyketide production. He was a post-doctoral fellow at UCSF and UCSC and received his Ph.D. in Umea, Sweden and is a co-author of one of the first publications applying nonlinear systems optimization to biopolymers.