James Burgess MBA

James is a co-founder of Finch Therapeutics. James is also a co-founder and the former Executive Director of OpenBiome, a stool bank and research institute focused on enabling access to microbiota transplants for C. difficile patients and catalyzing research in the human microbiome. James oversaw the growth of OpenBiome from a tiny lab at MIT to a large-scale operation supplying 1,000 treatments per month across the country and enabling dozens of clinical trials in the microbiome field.

James has a BA in Mathematics from Princeton University and briefly attended the MBA program at MIT Sloan before dropping out to launch OpenBiome. James is a Draper Richards Kaplan fellow, and has previously worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GE, and Bain & Company.