CellScope
Co-founded and led a university spinout through venture funding, a 25-person team, and acquisition by Johnson & Johnson.
The problem with ambitious technology is all the things it could become.
Sawmill helps founders, investors, and leadership teams decide what to build, what to prove, and what the company needs next.
Oakland, California
The practice
Sawmill is the independent advisory practice of Erik Douglas, Ph.D.
Selected experience
Built across the full arc.
An electrical engineer and bioengineer, Erik is an operator who has worked across the lifecycle of technical company building. He founded CellScope, a pioneering UC Berkeley digital health spinout, raised venture capital, and led it through acquisition by Johnson & Johnson. He then worked in corporate innovation, new-venture creation, and billion-dollar transactions inside a global company before leading product and platform development at Recursion.
Johnson & Johnson
Brought acquired technology to market, then led digital-health strategy, external innovation, and new venture work.
Recursion
Led product and platform development across AI/ML, high-throughput biology, precision chemistry design, and laboratory automation.
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