BioVenture VoiCes with Chris Garabedian

Episode 47: Ally Bridge's Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam describes his career journey that started with a Doctor of Pharmacy education before working in industry, the investment world, back in industry, and then sett

Episode 46: Catalys Pacific's BT Slingsby

BT Slingsby describes his education and career abroad, which ultimately led him to found and manage the largest life sciences VC firm in Japan, Catalys Pacific. He descri

Episode 45: Catalio Capital Management's George Petrocheilos

George Petrocheilos describes going to school at Hopkins and the relationships formed there that would ultimately lead down the road to specializing in healthcare investi

Episode 44: BainCapital's Adam Koppel

Adam Koppel describes his career path, which included a stop at McKinsey, Biogen, and twice at Bain (where he is now). He descrbies the private equity model they have bee

Episode 43: Lightstone Venture's Mike Carusi

Mike Carusi describes his early life and career, how gaining an appreciation for sales made an impression on him early on, and his philosophy of investing in medical devi

Episode 42: Nextech's Thilo Schroeder

Having been an early investor in many recent successes such as Revolution Medicines, Peloton, and Parabilis Medicines, he describes his investment philosophy and focus on

Episode 41: Forbion's Nanna Lüneborg

Nanna Luneborg discusses hear career and joining Forbion. She describes the firm's investment approach, and her experience with everything from seed, to private, and to p

Episode 40: GV's Krishna Yeshwant

He describes his well-rounded background of studying and working in both software in Silicon Valley and Medicine in Boston, and the start of GV. He describes a conservati

Episode 39: SV Health Investors' Kate Bingham

Kate Bingham describes her early life and a serendipitous opportunity to work at Vertex in the early 1990's. She then discusses joining SV Health and describes its invest

Episode 38: Deerfield Management's Jason Fuller

He discusses his education and joining the Langer Lab at MIT, early experiences in venture, including at Third Rock and NEA, and gaining operational experience at Jounce

Episode 37: SR One's Simeon George

Simeon George discusses his early days at SR One while it was part of GSK, and the transition to making the firm independent in 2020. Plus, the importance of peer-to-peer

Episode 36: Sofinnova Invetments' Jim Healy

He discusses learnings from his decades in venture at Sofinnova Investments including 'products vs platform', therapeutics areas of interest, modalities, and how he utili

Episode 35: INITIATE Ventures' Jessica Owens

Jessica Owens discusses the many experiences she has had in her career, including working on the venture side at Kleiner Perkins and Versant Ventures and on the operating

Episode 34: General Atlantic's Brett Zbar

Brett Zbar describes his early career, including working at Aisling Capital and Foresight Capital, and now managing the healthcare strategy at General Atlantic. He descri

Episode 33: Pappas Capital's Art Pappas

Art Pappas describes his early career, which involved numerous overseas posts for large companies, and how it let him to eventually found Pappas Capital. He discusses the

Episode 32: ARCH Venture Partners' Bob Nelsen

While describing his early life in Washington and formative years at the University of Chicago that led to the founding of ARCH, he shares his thoughts on leadership, ris

Episode 31: Polaris Partners' Amy Schulman

She describes her career beginnings as a lawyer, which led to general counsel and business unit head roles at Pfizer, and then joining the VC world at Polaris Partners (a

Episode 30: F-Prime Capital Senior Managing Partner Stephen Knight

He describes his early life and career experiences at Bell Labs, consulting work, and EPIX Pharmaceuticals before landing in his true interest, venture capital. Dr. Knigh

Episode 29: Averin Managing Partner David Berry

He describes his early life and education, 18 years of company building at Flagship Pioneering, founding Averin (previously called Bedford Bridge) with his brother, and i

Episode 28: Hatteras Venture Partners' Clay Thorp

Clay Thorp describes his early education and becoming a business partner to his brother on a genomics startup. He describes the genesis of Hatteras, the history and stren