Ena Chan Cratsenburg is the Chief Business Officer at Ginkgo Bioworks since 2016 where she is responsible for establishing partnerships with companies to utilize Ginkgo’s high-throughput automated cell engineering platform to develop innovative bio-based products. Ginkgo works with partners across many different markets, including pharmaceuticals, agriculture, industrial biotech, fine and specialty chemicals, and consumer products.

Prior to joining Ginkgo, Ms. Cratsenburg held executive and senior management positions at various synthetic biology companies - Intrexon, Evolva, and Amyris, where she led commercialization strategies and established key partnerships across diverse sectors and markets. Prior her career in synthetic biology, Ms. Cratsenburg held various business development and management roles at Pixar Animation Studios and BP p.l.c.  

Ms. Cratsenburg has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.