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Executive Director and Officers 2020-2021

PRESIDENT
Gregory M. Fahy
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientific Officer
21st Century Medicine
14960 Hilton Dr
Fontana, CA 92336
United States

PAST PRESIDENT
Adam Z. Higgins
Associate Professor
Oregon State University
Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering
Corvallis, OR 97331-2702
United States

PRESIDENT-ELECT
Allison Hubel
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of BioCoR
Mechanical Engineering
The University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

SECRETARY
James D. Benson
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2
Canada

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Janet A.W. Elliott
Editor-in-Chief, Cryobiology
University of Alberta Distinguished Professor & Canada Research Chair in Thermodynamics
Chemical and Materials Engineering Dept.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, T6G 2H5
Canada

TREASURER
Steven F. Mullen
Senior Scientist, Team Lead-Cell Culture Media Development
Cook Medical

500 W Simpson Chapel Road
Bloomington, IN 47404
United States

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Nicole Evans
Executive Director
Society for Cryobiology
245 W Chase St
Baltimore, MD 21201
United States

Governors 2020 - 2022

Yuksel Agca
Associate Professor
University of Missouri-Columbia
Dept. of Veterinary Pathobiology
Columbia, MO 65211
United States

Daniel Ballesteros
Early Career Research Fellow
Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology Department
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Wakehurst RH17 6TN, Ardingly
United Kingdom

Harriette Oldenhof
Senior Scientist
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
Unit for Reproductive Medicine
Bünteweg 15
30559 Hannover
Germany

Governors 2021 - 2023

John M. Baust
Founder, President, and CEO
CPSI Biotech
2 Court Street
Owego, NY 13827
United States

Shannon N. Tessier
Instructor
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
United States

Christina N. Walters
Lead Scientist
National Laboratory for Genetic Resource Preservation
USDA - Agricultural Research Service
Fort Collins, CO
United States

Governors 2022 - 2024

Kelvin Brockbank
CEO, Tissue Testing Technologies LLC
Technical Parkway
North Charleston, SC 29406
United States

Estefania Paredes
Universidade de Vigo
Marine Biological Resource Functional Preservation Service
Estación Cientifica Mariña de Toralla (ECIMAT)
Vigo, 36911, Galicia
Spain