Orr Yarkoni

Orr is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Colorifix.
After his early education in Portugal, Orr did his undergraduate, Masters and PhD degrees at Newcastle University, where he studied nanomaterials, biochemistry and synthetic biology. Orr went on to Jim’s Ajioka’s lab at the University of Cambridge to apply these skills to the arsenic biosensor project. From there they spun out a novel and sustainable approach to dyeing textiles using modified organisms to produce, deposit and fix dyes to fabrics, co-founding Colorifix.