Daniel Pomp

Daniel Pomp is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Genetics within the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Daniel co-Founded GeneSeek in 1998, the world’s largest non-human DNA analysis company, testing ~4 million agricultural and veterinary samples per year. GeneSeek was acquired by Neogen in 2010, and Daniel currently manages his family office venture seed fund, investing early in great new startup companies around the world. He was previously on the Board of Directors for the Minneapolis-based company CoreBiome (acquired by Orasure in 2019), is an advisor to Sterkel and Co Investment Banking and to KdT Ventures, and is on the Scientific Advisory Board for Locus Biosciences. After receiving degrees in Genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (B.S.Agr., 1983), the University of Wisconsin – Madison (M.S., 1986), NC State University (Ph.D., 1989) and Postdoctoral training at the University of California – Davis (1989-1991), Daniel joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University, followed by the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and eventually landed in Chapel Hill at UNC in 2005. Before retiring from UNC in 2018, Daniel had published close to 200 papers and book chapters primarily focusing on the genetic architecture of complex traits in animals and mouse models. Daniel is married to Andrea Eisen (Social Worker), and they have two children, Amos (a Senior at Northwestern University) and Talia (a Freshman at NYU). Daniel also serves on the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Center for Entrepreneurial Development, and the Refugee Community Partnership in Chapel Hill - Carrboro. He recently started up a micro VC investment firm known as Hockey Stick Investments.