Dr. Giwa is a founder and the CEO of Maximize Bio. Prior cryopreservation companies that he founded have raised triple digit millions of dollars, gotten FDA go-aheads and been featured as an NIH Success Story.  

Dr. Giwa also founded the 501c3 Organ Preservation Alliance while doing Singularity University's Global Solution Program at the NASA campus in Silicon Valley, and later cofounded the Biostasis Research Institute.  He was the founding, inaugural Chair of ATP-Bio Partners and the IAB for NSF backed ATP-Bio, the world’s largest cryopreservation research effort.

His background also includes research at hedge fund Bridgewater and being a board member at NDN, one of the highest performing Organ Procurement Organizations in the world.  He has spoken widely on regenerative medicine, including on Capitol Hill and at the White House.

Dr. Giwa holds a PhD in Economics (conducted at SSE and Harvard) and an MBA from Harvard where he was named a Baker Scholar; he is a Fellow at the Institute for Engineering in Medicine at UMN and is an Elected Member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO).