Cameron Pye

Co-Founder & CEO at Unnatural Products Inc.

Speaker

Cameron Pye is the CEO and co-founder of Unnatural Products, a biotechnology platform advancing macrocyclic peptide therapeutics. He earned his undergraduate degree from Whittier College and a PhD in organic chemistry from UC Santa Cruz, where he conducted research in Scott Lokey’s lab on the structure-property relationships of natural and synthetic cyclic peptides, often in collaboration with pharmaceutical partners.

In Lokey’s lab, Cameron met his co-founder, Joshua Schwochert, and together they founded Unnatural Products with a mission to make macrocyclic peptide medicinal chemistry scalable and repeatable through parallel chemistry and machine learning. Under his leadership, the company has raised over $38 million in equity financing and secured partnerships with major companies, including BridgeBio, Merck, and Argenx, representing over $2 billion in aggregate deal value.

Outside of work, Cameron enjoys trail running, motorcycling, and spending time with his partner and dog in the Santa Cruz mountains.