Occupation Entrepreneur Board member of Indigo Agriculture | Employer Indigo Agriculture | |
Education University of Tulsa, Harvard University, United States Air Force Academy | ||
David Perry is the president, CEO and director of Indigo Agriculture, an agriculture technology startup that uses plant microbiomes to increase plant health and crop yields. He is also a co-founder and serves as Chairman of the Board at FareWell, a digital lifestyle medicine company, and a board member at Evelo.
Perry was raised on a farm in rural Arkansas and is a “serial entrepreneur,” founding several companies in the life sciences sector, including Anacor Pharmaceuticals, which he co-founded in 2002, and Chemdex, a B2B platform for buyers and sellers of life science products.
Under Perry’s leadership, Chemdex, rebranded as Ventro in 2000, achieved a valuation of $11 billion.
Perry was named entrepreneur of the year by financial consulting firm Ernst & Young, and has been called “one of the rock stars of the Web” by Pharma & MedTech Business Intelligence.
Education
Perry holds a BS from the University of Tulsa and a MBA from Harvard University, during which he started his first biotech company, Virogen. He also attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he was selected as a National Merit Scholar.