Andrew Busey

Andrew Busey is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company focused on de-extinction, primarily using CRISPR technology to revive extinct species. He is also the co-founder and co-CEO of Form Bio, a computational life sciences platform developed by Colossal, which provides tools to help scientists manage large datasets and visualize results.

Over the past 25 years, Busey has pioneered some of the internet industry’s most important technologies – including work on Mosaic, the first web browser (now part of Microsoft Internet Explorer); creating iChat, the first web based chat system and one of the first instant messaging applications; building WebCenter, the first web-based customer service technology (now part of Avaya); creating a new class of asynchronous games (Challenge Games, acquired by Zynga); and innovating in conversational commerce (Conversable, acquired by LivePerson). He is the primary inventor on twenty-nine patents.

Busey is an active angel investor in companies such as Aceable, Cratejoy, FlashParking, ZenBusiness, and Waterloo Water. He is the author of "Accidental Gods," a novel about a group of scientists who simulate a universe where life develops, and "Secrets of the MUD Wizards," the first book about developing multiplayer games.

He has a degree in computer science from Duke University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.