B en Lamm is a serial technology entrepreneur who has founded several successful companies in emerging technology sectors. His most recent and notable venture is Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology and genetic engineering company he co-founded with the renowned Harvard geneticist George Church. Colossal has captured public imagination with its audacious goal of de-extincting species like the woolly mammoth and the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger).

Before Colossal, Lamm founded and led the artificial intelligence company Hypergiant, which develops AI solutions for major corporations and government agencies. Prior to that, he founded Conversable, a conversational intelligence platform that was acquired by LivePerson, and Chaotic Moon Studios, a creative technology studio that was acquired by Accenture. Lamm's career has been characterized by his ability to identify cutting-edge technologies and build businesses around them, from mobile apps and AI to the futuristic field of synthetic biology.