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Did Tomas Babej co-found ProteinQure?
Yes. ProteinQure's team page (proteinqure.com/team, read 2026-10-24) lists him as "Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Co-Founder". BetaKit (2019-07-29) wrote that the company "was founded in 2017 by Siow, CTO Tomas Babej, chief strategy officer Chris Ing, and Mark Fingerhuth, head of R&D", and The Varsity (2020-10-18) named "co-founders Lucas Siow, Tomas Babej, Chris Ing, and Mark Fingerhuth", who met through the Creative Destruction Lab.
What is Tomas Babej's role at ProteinQure today?
Chief technology officer, per the company team page read 2026-10-24. Endpoints News (2025-05-27), covering the $11M Series A, captioned the founding team photo with "Chief Technical Officer Tomas Babej" alongside CEO Lucas Siow, CSO Chris Ing and Chief R&D Officer Mark Fingerhuth.
What did Tomas Babej do before ProteinQure?
Software engineering at Red Hat. The team page (read 2026-10-24) says he "has a double MSc degree in computer science, with focus on machine learning, cybersecurity and quantum computing" and that "before co-founding ProteinQure, he mastered the art of software engineering at Red Hat." The Varsity (2020-10-18) says Babej and Fingerhuth were both in the Creative Destruction Lab's quantum computing stream, working on a protein-folding problem, when they set out to find co-founders with complementary expertise.
Has Tomas Babej spoken at TechTO?
No. ProteinQure's TechTO connection runs through co-founder and CEO Lucas Siow, who spoke at TechTO in February 2020 on the hardest part of building a startup. No interview or podcast featuring Babej was found (searches run 2026-10-24).