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NC State Startup Success Formula: ‘Jump In and Do It’

2024 CALS Distinguished Alumni Award winner Giles Shih talks about science, entrepreneurship and success.

BioResource International Inc. (BRI) founder Giles Shih

Transforming from scientist to entrepreneur was a family affair for 2024 CALS Distinguished Alumni Award winner Giles Shih. For the founder and strategic advisor of Big Ripple Innovations and co-founder of BioResource International Inc. (BRI), curiosity, ingenuity, family and science came together at NC State University to launch his successful international business career.

“It took a couple decades from incubating those early laboratory concepts at NC State’s Centennial Campus into ultimately developing a very good business that was able to bring innovation to the animal health and nutrition space,” Shih says.