Our Team: Innovation Advisory Board
Harry Rein IAB Chairman and General Partner, Foundation Medical Partners
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
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 N. Davis
Roy Davis, was President, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC) and Vice President, Corporate Development, Johnson & Johnson, from January of 2008 until his retirement from J&J on January 1, 2012. In this role ,he was responsible for the management of JJDC , the Johnson & Johnson wholly owned.... Continue Reading
Andrew D. Firlik, M.D. General Partner, Foundation Medical Partners
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
Adele Gulfo Pfizer, Regional President, Latin America
Adele Gulfo is Regional President, of Latin America in Pfizer's Emerging Markets Business Unit In this capacity, she leads a team of over 4,000 colleagues operating across more than 23 countries. In 2011, Pfizer Latin America achieved US $3 billion in revenue and has become the largest revenue generator within the... Continue Reading
Andy Hurd President & CEO of Epocrates
Andy is the president and CEO of Epocrates, which is largely recognized as the #1 mobile health app trusted by more than 50% of US physicians and over 1 million clinicians. The company creates meaningful engagement between its large... Continue Reading
Keith Kerman, M.D. Operating Partner and Senior Advisor, The Riverside Company
Keith Kerman, M.D. is an Operating Partner and Senior Advisor with The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on investing in growth businesses valued at up to $250 million. Dr. Kerman joined Riverside in 2012 and focuses his activity on the firm's healthcare activity... Continue Reading
John Koski, M.D. Managing Director, Allen & Company
John Koski is a Managing Director and Co-heads the Healthcare Practice at Allen & Company. Dr. Koski focuses primarily on the healthcare services and healthcare information technology sectors. Prior to joining Allen in 2005, he had been a Resident in Orthopedic Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York... Continue Reading
Steve Lindseth CEO, YouBeauty.com
Steven Lindseth, CEO, co-founded YouBeauty.com with Dr. Roizen and Dr. Oz. Steve has had a 30 year career starting and building health-related technology businesses. Steve serves on a number of boards including Explorys, Imagescan, Intellis, Healthprize and the Clinic’s ... Continue Reading
Jeffery A. McCaulley President, Zimmer Reconstructive Division
Jeffery A. McCaulley is President, Global Reconstructive Division at Zimmer since 2008. He has overall responsibility for the Reconstructive Division, including direct responsibility for Global Brand Management, Product Research and Development, Quality, Regulatory Affairs... Continue Reading
Doug Morton, Ph.D. Consultant, Pharmaceutical Industry
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
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 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
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
Steven Weinstein Managing Director, Novartis Venture Fund
Steve focuses on both medical device and bio/pharma investments for the fund. He brings significant operating and venture capital experience to Novartis' investing efforts. Steve joined the Fund in 2006 as a Managing Director. He has led the investments and serves/d on the board of the following companies : Ablation Frontiers... Continue Reading
Lifetime Members
Glenn Brown President, Generation Foundation
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. Consultant, Pharmaceutical Industry
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, Symark LLC
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
Steve Sullivan, M.D. In Memorium
Steve Sullivan MD, a long standing member of the IAB, passed away Thanksgiving Day. He had been living in Abu Dhabi. Steve had been a managing director at Skyline Ventures in San Francisco... Continue Reading