The thing that excites me most about my role is that it presents me with numerous opportunities to learn and grow. I am able to leverage my experience and skills to deliver consistent results and support production, while also being challenged to tackle new projects and learn new things.

I am inspired on a daily basis by the knowledge that the work I’m doing can have meaningful impact to individuals with serious medical conditions and their families, and that I am playing a part in that.

One of Atara’s values is accountability, and to me that means having the privilege of being entrusted with the ownership of my projects and my contributions to Atara’s mission. Being accountable for my work and accountable to my coworkers motivates me to work hard and makes me feel like I am an equal player in a team effort.

The cross-functional nature and the mix of science, strategy, creativity, analytics and execution. Marketing touches everything.

The growing potential impact of our platform and the rapid strengthening of our culture.

The potential to be a part of one of the next great advancements in medicine.

Collaboration with functional business partners to determine how we can most effectively invest in our business to have the greatest and most expedient impact for patients, while creating value for our shareholders.

The commitment, passion and intelligence of my peers at Atara.

We are on the frontier of cell therapy, pushing the boundaries of what is possible with off-the-shelf allogeneic therapeutics.

I am a proud Atarian and privileged to be on the mission to bring novel cellular therapies to the patients and to change the way we treat certain rare and devastating life-threatening diseases like post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD).

One of our values is accountability, and to me that means we act quickly in pursuit of our objectives and goals. We plan ahead, overcome hurdles and assist one another as we move forward. We take ownership of decisions and outcomes. We learn from our flaws. We are motivated and supported by our fellow Atarians along the way.

In manufacturing, I am really at the center of everything. I get to work with different departments to bring in new products, equipment, people, and most important, work on commercializing medicines for very sick patients.

I like that my role is still very science-based. I enjoy learning about new technology. I enjoy learning about how new processes are developed by very smart people. I like that I get to learn about how our work can affect people and how to scale up products for manufacturing. It is really cool that I get to see some of these ideas turn into products that my team gets to make.

My team, especially the associates who manufacture our products. Our process is a combination of art and science.

I can go on and on about this, but I think cells are fascinating. So learning more about what we can do with cells is fun for me.

Probably transparency. I am very open with my team when I can be. I like everyone to be in the know. I think it helps us get ahead of things and be able to anticipate issues as they arise in manufacturing and deal with them in real time.

I have the amazing opportunity to interface with everyone during their first week with Atara.

My function is broader and allows me to provide not only for my immediate team but for the entire company.

Knowing patients could benefit from us crossing that finish line to get product to patients in need.

Actually, meeting and hearing from patients is one of the many things I find exciting and it inspires me to continue doing what I do.

Everything we are doing is exciting and simply being on the pioneering side of this science is really cool.

One of our values is integrity, which means a lot to me in the sense of how I deliver. I want you to know that you are going to get my best whenever/whatever I do for the team at Atara, which is all to help our patients in the bigger scheme of things.