Operating Partner

Casey Perley is an expert in dual-use technology who spent the last seven years making the Army more accessible to companies. As a founding member and later director of the Army Applications Laboratory, she helped put more than 50 technologies into military units and catalyze $4B of investment in early stage defense companies. 

Earlier, Casey spent a decade developing vaccines and therapeutics for infectious diseases. She spent over 3,000 hours in BSL-3 and BSL-4 high containment, researching pathogens ranging from Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Hantavirus. 

She holds a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemsitry from Yale University and a PhD in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology from Duke University. She is also an accomplished harpist with over 120 live and studio recordings, one of which was nominated for two Grammy Awards.