Founding inventor, Jonathan L. Gal,  is a Harvard biology major who became interested in the algae industry while working at the U.S. National Institutes of Health as a lab technician.  Jonathan earned an MBA from the FW Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, and he has worked in money management in a small family office and in agriculture on a small family farm. Currently, he is working on a PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.​ Jonathan is passionate about delivering user friendly innovations, and he always emphasizes customer satisfaction. He likes to use the term 'photosyndustry' to describe this emerging industry. He believes that the photosyndustry is in the early days of a multi-decade growth trend as these processes become more widely adopted around the world for purposes such as wastewater treatment, biofuels & bioplastics, nutritional ingredients, cosmetics, fertilizers, feed products, and air purificiation.

Dr. Steven M. Johnson is a Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.  He is Jonathan's PhD advisor and PI, as well as a professor of several of Jonathan's PhD classes. Steve has been teaching at BYU for 14 years and doing molecular biology research for the past 28 years. He currently is serving as the Graduate Committee Chair and Graduate Coordinator for his department.  Prior to joining BYU, Dr. Johnson completed a PhD at Yale University and a Post-Doc at Stanford University. At Stanford, he worked in the lab of Professor Andrew Fire, a Nobel Prize winning scientist in Physiology and Medicine. Dr. Johnson is a member of the undergraduate class of 1994 at Brigham Young University, and he also completed a Master's Degree at San Diego State University in California.

Dakota Mundell is studying Mechanical Engineering at BYU.  He has experience with SolidWorks and other CAD software programs for 3-D modelling, both from his undergraduate academic studies and also from his prior work experience in a manufacturing company. He worked in a metallurgy lab on R&D and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes, where he focused on Material Science, more specifically, the grain structure of materials and how it impacts the manufacturing and functionality of parts. He has also worked in the BYU Prototyping Lab, where he aided students in their research, classes, and personal projects. Most recently, he supervised the 3-D printing operations of the prototyping lab. At Photosynthetic Technologies, he has been closely involved with plastic component design, optimization, and manufacturing, as well as the aluminum t-slot framing and housing of the lab PBR kit. Some of his SolidWorks drawings are also being used for sales and marketing purposes.