Mack earned his B.S. in Biology from Baylor University (Waco, TX) and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University (College Station, TX), where he focused on X-ray crystallography and structure-based drug design of proteins essential to tuberculosis and malaria. Following his tenure at several biotech companies, including Thermo Fisher, he joined Genopis as the Process Development Manager, where he added plasmid manufacturing to his knowledge base. WACKER then acquired Genopis and established WACKER Biotech US in San Diego, where Mack has been Associate Director of Process Development since 2021.