About
With over 15 years of experience in venture capital, biotechnology, and healthcare, I am a passionate and driven venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the world's leading venture capital firms. My mission is to identify, invest in, and support high growth biotech and healthcare companies that can transform the lives of patients and consumers. I leverage my expertise in neuroscience, health care management, and finance to bring diverse perspectives and experiences to the team and the portfolio. At Bessemer Venture Partners, I focus on early and growth stage investments in biotech and healthcare companies across the US and Europe. I have been involved in multiple successful exits and IPOs, such as Kymera Therapeutics, TScan Therapeutics and Collective Medical, as well as leading and supporting investments in companies such as Nido Biosciences, Rimsys, Peptone, Plenful, and CopilotIQ. I also serve as a board director or observer for several portfolio companies, and work…
Experience
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners · Cambridge, MA
Present
Focused on high growth biotech and healthcare companies Board Director @ TRIANA Biomedicines, Soufflé Therapeutics, Converge Bio, Seismic Therapeutic, Kymera Therapeutics ($KYMR): 2018-2021, Plenful, TScan Therapeutics ($TCRX): 2018-2021, Stealth AI Biotech, Nido Biosciences, Rimsys, Peptone, CopilotIQ Board observer and/or investor @ Curie Bio, Mural Health, Watershed Informatics, Collective Medical, Bright Health, Qventus, Groups, Artemis Health, AccuVein, Fractyl, Ginger/Headspace Health, Hinge Health, Inductive Bio among others
Healthcare Vc
F-Prime Capital Partners · Cambridge, MA
F-Prime Capital (f.k.a. Fidelity Biosciences) invests venture capital in private therapeutics, medtech, and health IT & services companies. Executed new and follow-on investments in the US, China, and India. Invested in private biotech and health IT companies (Series A – Series D) focused on rare diseases, cancer, ophthalmology, dermatology, HR benefits and hospital equipment.
Associate
Leerink Partners LLC · Boston, MA
Leerink Partners is a boutique investment bank and consulting firm focused exclusively on life sciences companies, including pharmaceutical, biotech, drug delivery and medical device companies. Leerink Consulting is the strategy consulting branch of the organization. Analyst: 2007 – 2009
Neuroscience Research Assistant
University of Pennsylvania Department of Animal Biology, Neuroscience Laboratory
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034235/ Conducted research in Tracy Bale's neuroscience lab, which focuses on developing mouse models of stress sensitivity related to neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disease.
Psychology Research Supervisor
Penn Resiliency Project
The Penn Resiliency Program (PRP), designed by Penn's research team, is a group intervention for late elementary and middle school students. The curriculum teaches cognitive-behavioral and social problem-solving skills and is based in part on cognitive-behavioral theories of depression by Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis, and Martin Seligman (Abramson, Seligman, & Teasdale, 1978; Beck, 1967, 1976; Ellis, 1962). Central to PRP is Ellis' Adversity-Consequences-Beliefs (ABC) model, the notion that our beliefs about events mediate their impact on our emotions and behavior. Through this model, students learn to detect inaccurate thoughts, to evaluate the accuracy of those thoughts, and to challenge negative beliefs by considering alternative interpretations. PRP also teaches a variety of strategies that can be used for solving problems and coping with difficult situations and emotions. Students learn techniques for assertiveness, negotiation, decision-making, social problem-solving, and relaxation.…
Education
The Wharton School
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Health Care Management, Finance
University of Pennsylvania
BA, Biological Basis of Behavior (Neuroscience), Health Care Management
Pittsford-Mendon High School
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