Sudhee Lakshama serves as AgStart's Lab Director, working directly with our client companies to support their work, overseeing our lab facilities, and managing our community-building and client-support programs including our monthly 'Learn From A Local' networking events and our AgriFoodTech Entrepreneur Resource (AFTER) mentoring support program.

Sudhee brings a background of work in academic labs and his own start-up. Sudhee's background includes a stint at UC Davis as a postdoc in 2009, working on nano-photonics. In that period, he discovered his entrepreneurial DNA and co-founded Sonanutech Inc with Prof. Ian Kennedy, raising over $1.3 million in grant and $100,000 in industrial support for the rapid bacteriophage test. Since 2019, he has been working as an instructor and program director at Carrington College. Sudhee brings to these roles a passion for science, technology and instrumentation, along with the experience of building and managing a biotech lab. He has served as a principle investigator and as a reviewer for National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation grants. He is the recipient of the prestigious Alexander-von-Humboldt fellowship. Sudhee holds a PhD in Materials Chemistry from India.