Luis Cascão Pereira

Luis Cascão Pereira currently serves as the Global R&D Ventures Director at International Flavors & Fragrances, where the focus is on identifying transformative technologies and overseeing partnerships to build new businesses. Prior experience includes significant roles at DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences, where responsibilities ranged from leading cross-disciplinary teams to scaling precision fermentation and synthetic biology projects, managing process development, and driving innovation in enzyme technologies. Luis also held positions at Danisco and Genencor International, contributing to the development of enzyme products and materials science. Educational credentials include a PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, an MBA from Harvard Business School, a diploma in Biochemical Engineering from EPFL, and an exchange year in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.