Harry Rein, General Partner, Foundation Medical Partners, where he is primarily focused on investing in medical devices. Mr. Rein served for 15 years as the Founder and Managing General Partner of Canaan Partners. In addition to his role as the managing general partner at Canaan Partners, Mr. Rein was... Continue Reading
Brian Canann, Managing Director, NaviMed Capital, a Washington, DC based venture capital firm focused on revenue-stage healthcare investments. Prior to co-founding NaviMed Capital, he was a healthcare investment professional at The Carlyle Group. He also led he global marketing effort for the Endeavor drug-eluting stent development.... Continue Reading
Roy Davis, President, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) and Vice President, Corporate Development, Johnson & Johnson, was named to these positions in January of 2008. He is responsible for the management and efforts of both JJDC and the internal Johnson & Johnson ventures group... Continue Reading
Andrew Firlik, M.D., General Partner, Foundation Medical Partners. Dr. Firlik joined Foundation Medical Partners in 2005 to concentrate on medical device and biopharmaceutical investments. Prior to Foundation, he was a venture partner at Sprout Group and a managing director of its healthcare technology... Continue Reading
Patrick Fortune, Ph.D., Partner, Boston Millennia Partners, a venture capital that invests in healthcare, life sciences and certain parts of information technology. Dr. Fortune has over 30 years of experience in the healthcare, life sciences and information technology sectors. He was previously President and Chief Operating... Continue Reading
Keith Kerman, M.D., Managing Director, Primus Capital Funds. Dr. Kerman joined Primus in 2003 and has over 12 years of private equity and operating company experience. Prior to joining Primus, Dr. Kerman was a general partner with Morgenthaler Ventures for six years and a partner with Marquette... Continue Reading
Steve Lindseth, Chairman, Axentis, Inc. Steve has been a founder of a number of software, high-technology healthcare, manufacturing and consumer-products companies. Most recently, Mr. Lindseth founded Axentis, Inc, a leading venture backed provider of enterprise software serving the governance, risk and compliance... Continue Reading
Doug Morton, Ph.D., is presently a consultant in the life sciences arena, working with a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations. From 2003-2006, he was CEO, Southwest Michigan Innovation Center, an incubator/accelerator located in Kalamazoo, MI that provides wet-laboratory space, access to venture... Continue Reading
William Mulligan, Managing Director, Primus Capital Funds. Mr. Mulligan joined Primus, a Cleveland-based private equity firm, in 1985 from McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm. Mr. Mulligan has served as a Managing Director of Primus since 1987. His previous work experience includes ... Continue Reading
John Reardon, Venture Partner, Trident Capital. John is an experienced healthcare and technology executive who has co-founded several successful start-ups as well as led mature divisions of several large organizations. Prior to Trident, John was president and CEO of CliniComp International, an acute care clinical information system... Continue Reading
Rebecca B. Robertson, Managing Director, Versant Ventures. Beckie specializes in early-stage investing in medical devices and diagnostics at Versant. Beckie's career encompasses 23 years of venture capital and operating experience in medical products as an engineer, entrepreneur, corporate executive and investor. Before co-founding... Continue Reading
Stephen Sullivan, M.D., Partner, Skyline Ventures, joined Skyline Ventures, a leading early stage healthcare venture investor, in 2000. He has been involved managing and investing in healthcare companies and in practicing medicine since 1981. He completed his three year residency and was Chief Resident in Medicine... Continue Reading
Glenn Brown, President of the Generation Foundation. He was appointed as Science and Technology Advisor to Governor Voinovich in June of 1996 and served in that role for both Governor Voinovich and his successor Governor Taft. Dr. Brown received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University... Continue Reading
Duncan McVean, Ph.D., is a self-employed consultant specializing in manufacturing, pharmaceutics, and quality control as applied to pharmaceuticals. Most recently, he was CEO of Ridgeway BioSciences, a business spin-off of CCFI. At the same time, he was Chairman of the Board of Scanlabs, a health and wellness company... Continue Reading
Bill Sanford, Founder and Chairman of Symark LLC, a private equity, technology commercialization, and business development organization headquartered in Naples, Florida. He is also Executive Founder and retired Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Steris Corporation (NYSE:STE), a global... Continue Reading