After founding alternative feed ingredients biotech firm KnipBio in 2013, Larry Feinberg, a baseball loving, mountain biker, says he has brought the business to the cusp of commercialization.

"It all looks like a straight line in the rear view mirror, as you are driving it might be a little windy," Feinberg said, reflecting on his life and career so far.

His love of baseball stems from his early years growing up as a Yankees fan in the Big Apple, from where he moved to study first biology as an undergraduate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst between 1994 and 1998, working with distinguished professor and evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis.