Leadership
Six people: a Marine Corps veteran, a chemist of fifty years, a regulatory scientist, a patent attorney and two advisors.
Shawn Sizer Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
USMC veteran · Platform strategy · Licensing
View profileDr. James Woodford, Ph.D. Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
Ph.D. Chemistry, Emory · 50+ years · Patent holder
View profileDr. Robert F. Vogt, Ph.D. Director of Regulatory Science and Platform Validation
Former CDC Principal Investigator · 100+ publications
View profileDon E. Wirtshafter Strategic Advisor
Attorney · Hemp and cannabis pioneer · Wirtshafter Collection
View profilePatrick F. O'Reilly III Intellectual Property Counsel
USPTO patent attorney · Former patent examiner
View profileRon Docie Strategic Advisor
Inventor and author · 100+ licensing agreements
View profileThe team behind the platform
Scientifically rigorous, commercially legible.
One side of the table understands positioning, licensing and market entry. The other speaks in methods, protocols and compound behavior.
Leadership questions
HyGyHya was co-founded by Shawn Sizer (CEO) and Dr. James Woodford, Ph.D. (Chief Science Officer), and is supported by Dr. Robert F. Vogt, Ph.D. (Director of Regulatory Science and Platform Validation). Together they combine platform-level strategic leadership with decades of scientific and regulatory expertise.
The company is built on a shared focus: addressing variability, instability, and reproducibility challenges in plant-derived compounds through disciplined, integrity-driven development.
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