Meet The Team
Founder & CEO
Sean Ballard
Sean is a founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Metre.
Previously he was founder and Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Eigenvector Capital, a hedge fund focused on algorithmic investing. Sean was an executive at leading investment firms such as Goldman Sachs and Palestra Capital Management.
Sean serves on the Business Affairs committee of the board of scientific publisher Annual Reviews. He graduated with a BS in Economics from Brigham Young University.
Founder & CTO
Glenn Forrester
Glenn is a founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Metre.
Glenn is a serial entrepreneur who started his first company while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, eventually selling that company to Apple. He has started other successful companies in a wide range of markets including, AI, medical devices, data science, education, market research, and cloud-based security.
Senior Scientist
Nicole Ing, PhD
Nicole is the Senior Scientist at Metre.
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Prior to joining the Metre team, Nicole had over ten years of academic research experience. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of California, Irvine, where she was both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a U.S. Department of Education GANN Fellow, specializing in electrochemical biosensors.
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During her postdoctoral research for Sandia National Laboratories, she worked on developing high-throughput analytical chemistry assays for molecular screening.