MassCONNECT Mentors
MassCONNECT Mentors have graciously volunteered their time and considerably expertise to helping the next generation of entrepreneurs off the ground. MassBio thanks these individuals for their service!
Name |
Role & Company |
| Faraz Ali | Consultant at bluebird bio |
| Richard Anders | Founder, Managing Director at MA2 (Massachusetts Medical Angels |
| Bill Asher | Partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart, LLP |
| Alan Barber | Independent Consultant |
| Russel Barron | Partner at Pepper Hamilton |
| Glenn Batchelder | President and CEO at Civitas Therapeutics |
| Michael Boss | President at Boss Enterprises |
| Robert Bratzler | Biotechnology Consultant at Bratzler Associates |
| Fangli Chen | Patent Attorney at Choate, Hall & Stewart |
| Marcelo Chersky | Vice President Global Disease Lead - Gaucher & MPS at Genzyme |
| Michael Christiano | Novartis institute of Biomedical Research |
| Geoff Cox | Independent Consultant |
| Robert Cunningham | Platform Development Director at Wyss Institute at Harvard University |
| John Dellapa | Counsel at Mintz Levin |
| Chris Denn | Partner in the Life Science Group at Goodwin Procter |
| Stephen DiPalma | CFO at EnVivo Pharmaceuticals |
| Richard Douglas | SVP Corporate Development at Genzyme |
| Nan Doyle | Principal at Trillium Advisors |
| Giulio Draetta | Director, Institute for Applied Cancer Science at MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Bill Edelman | TyRx Pharma |
| Beth Edwards | Associate Director, Commercial Operations at Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
| Greg Erman | Healthcare Technology CTO |
| Eric Evans | Pharmaceuticals consultant and contractor |
| Diala Ezzedine | Chief Business Officer at X-Chem, Inc |
| Davis Farmer | MSM Protein Technologies |
| Clare Fisher | Business Development & Strategy at Blueprint Medicines |
| Stephen Fochios | Manager at KPMG Advisory |
| Heather Fraser | Director, Strategic Planning and Decision Support at Shire HGT |
| Brian Gallagher | Partner at SR One |
| Robert Gottlieb | Principal at RMG Associates, LLC |
| Brad Guild | Senior Director, Technology Development at Shire HGT |
| John Gustofson | Business Development Director at AstraZeneca |
| Stephanie Hallam | Medical and Laboratory Director at Good Start Genetics |
| John Hallinan | Chief Financial Officer at Cytel Inc |
| Haroon Hashmi | Biogen Idec |
| Michael Henry | Vice President Business Development at Athena Diagnostics |
| Steve Herbert | Vice President Sales & Business Development, Cytel Inc. |
| Arthur Hiller | CEO of Sci-fluor |
| George Hillman | Abkine Bach Pharma |
| Karen Katz | Executive Account Manager at Thomson Reuters |
| Derek Lee | Chief Financial Officer at Talaris Advisors LLC |
| Reid Leonard | Executive Director, Search & Evaluation, Licensing & External Scientific Affairs at Merck |
| Nancy Levy | Managing Partner at Biohealth Management |
| Michelle Lim-Watson | Director, Peri and Post-Approval Services at United BioSource Corporation |
| Steve London | Partner at Pepper Hamilton |
| Joyce Lonergan | Founder and President at The Pine Cone Consulting Company |
| Nagesh Mahanthappa | Avila Therapeutics |
| Neal Mantick | Senior Director - Global Head Observational Research at PAREXEL International |
| Jack McCullough | Client Relations Director at KPMG |
| Catheine Mesner | Sr Director, Development and Strategy Operations at Pfizer |
| jay Mohr | Managing Director and Founding Member at Locust Walk Partners |
| Adam Muzikant | Principal, Locust Walk Partners |
| Kenneth O'Hara | KPMG |
| Doug Onsi | Partner at HealthCare Ventures LLC |
| David Paparella | Medical Device Product Management at PartMed |
| Maggie Pax | Experienced Life Sciences Executive |
| Parika Petaipimol | Development Engineer at Biogen Idec |
| Kevin Pojasek | Corporate Development at Kala Pharmaceuticals |
| Brad Prosek | Senior Director of Corporate Development at Cubist |
| Imran Qidwai | Senior Solutions Architect at AePONA |
| Kiran Reddy | Principal at Third Rock Ventures |
| John Reilly | Vice President Business Development at Tetragenetics, Inc. |
| Andrew Sage | KPMG/Partner |
| Lisa Shmerling | Consultant |
| Lauren Silverman | Managing Director at Novartis Venture Funds |
| Bill Skillman | Ken Clark International |
| Alain Stricker-Kongrad | Charles River Labs |
| Arto Suren | Manager at KPMG's Economic & Valuation Services Practice |
| John Tagliamonte | SVP Corporate and Business Development at Selventa |
| Tunc Toker | Senior Manager, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Deloitte Consulting LLP |
| Katherine Turner | Consultant at Turner R & D Consulting |
| Arthur Tzianabos | Vice President and Head, Research and Early Development at Shire HGT |
| Pushpa Vijayaraghavan | Vice President at Sathguru Management Consultants |
| Bob Wassman | Principal at Life-design Ventures |
| Nancy Wetherbee | Principal at Nancy Wetherbee Life Sciences Consulting |
| Greg Williams | Intellectual Property Partner at Pepper Hamilton LLP |
| Charles Wilson | Global Head of Strategic Alliances at Novartis |
| Larry Wittenberg | Partner, Co-Chair of Technology and Life Sciences Companies Major Practice Group, at Goodwin Procter LLP |
| Nader Yaghoubi | Founder and Principal at DeNovo Bioworks, LLC |
| Cissy Young | Director, Strategy and Business Development, Cerulean Pharma |
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THANK YOU TO MassCONNECT SPONSORS!
Questions?
Questions about MassCONNECT or how to participate?
Contact Rakhshita Dhar at rakhshita.dhar@massbio.org or 617-674-5143.
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