Jennifer Reynolds

Dr. Jennifer Reynolds is an experienced and entrepreneurial executive with more than twenty-five years of experience growing companies in start-up/early stage biotechnology and high technology environments. Dr. Reynolds has a passion for applying science and business expertise to challenging scientific concerns and toward the development, commercialization and support of technologies and services across diverse high-technology sectors. She has experience and skills in corporate and laboratory operations, business development, strategic and financial planning, project management, grants/contracts administration, and resource management.

She and her team at Salamandra provide strategic, technical, and regulatory consulting services to the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Reynolds previously led the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s 60+ company incubation/acceleration program in life sciences, cybersecurity and clean technology and has a deep interest in advancing the commercialization of new technologies within diverse high-technology sectors. Previously, she served in a COO capacity at a molecular diagnostics platform company in MD, growing the company from the ground up. She has also served as a DNA Forensics Expert and Crime Laboratory Director at one of the nation’s most prestigious private forensics testing laboratories.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Medical College of Virginia (VCU), Human Genetics
• M.B.A., Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland College Park
• B.S., Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Biology