Mr. Sipes is the Senior Vice President of Technology and Operations for Plexium.

Daniel leads the Engineering, Software, Informatics, Compound Management, Screening, Manufacturing and Facilities groups, and brings deep background in advanced technologies and laboratory operations in advanced drug discovery and development. Prior to joining Plexium, Daniel served as SVP, Strategy and Operations, San Diego Site Head at Strateos (formerly Transcriptic), where he was responsible for building and operating remotely controlled cloud labs for automated chemistry and biology. Prior to Strateos, he was Director, Advanced Automation Technologies at the Novartis San Diego location (formerly GNF). While at Novartis, Daniel developed and implemented new technologies for drug discovery, assay development, high throughput screening, automated cell culture and protein production. Before that, he held positions focused on high throughput screening and compound management at Kalypsys, Inc. and Ligand Pharmaceuticals. Daniel started his career in the Hybridoma Laboratory at Genentech.

Daniel received his BS in Molecular Biology from California State University, Sacramento, and an MS, Immunology from the University of California, Davis.