Ms. Kelley is a prolific and successful entrepreneur, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nancy J Kelley + Associates, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kyttaro Therapeutics, and a Founding Member of Builds BIO+. She was a member of the Founding Leadership team of the international scientific project Genome Project (GP)-write and the associated Center of Excellence for Engineering Biology, and helped to launch the Biodesign Challenge. Ms. Kelley was the Founding Executive Director of the New York Genome Center and a lead executive in the development of the East River Science Park (now, Alexandria Life Science Center) in Manhattan. She has overseen major development projects for clients such as Harvard's McLean Hospital, NIH, Johns Hopkins, and MIT.