Opentrons Labworks, Inc., announced the appointment of Veleka Peeples-Dyer as chief legal and compliance officer. The breadth of Peeples-Dyer’s expertise and influence position the company to accelerate its strategic plans for growth and expansion in biotech automation, clinical diagnostics and synthetic biology.
Peeples-Dyer is an accomplished attorney and executive with more than 22 years of legal and compliance experience dedicated to the life sciences industry, advising pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and other companies on Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and global compliance matters. In addition to serving as a strategic advisor to global life sciences clients at prominent life sciences law firms, Peeples-Dyer has also served as senior in-house legal and compliance counsel in leading companies to help develop and launch first-in-class products. Most recently, she was chair of the North America Food and Drug Practice Group for Baker McKenzie, a top global life sciences law firm, where she was also a member of the firm’s North American Healthcare & Life Sciences Steering Committee and worked extensively with the Global Healthcare and Life Sciences team. Peeples-Dyer was recently listed for the second time in Savoy magazine’s 2022 “Most Influential Black Lawyers,” among her many honors and recognitions in the legal and life sciences fields.
“We are thrilled to welcome Veleka to the team,” said Jonathan Brennan-Badal, CEO of Opentrons. “Veleka’s leadership and strategic legal counsel will be critical to Opentrons’ growth and expansion of product development from research to commercialization.”
