Board of Directors

Raymond Withy, Ph.D. - Chairman

  • TWG Advisors, Sausalito CA, a boutique advisory and investment company
  • Previous Abgenix, Inc. Fremont, CA
  • Previous Genzyme Corporation, Cambridge, MA

Alan Frazier

  • Founder and Managing General Partner - Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Seattle, WA
  • Previous CFO - Affymax
  • Previous CFO - Immunex
  • Previous head of the Emerging Business Practice and co-head of the Technology Practice - Arthur Young Company (now, Ernst & Young), Seattle, WA

Kim Puloma Kamdar, Ph.D.

  • Domain Associates, San Diego
  • Previous Kauffman Fellow, MPM Capital
  • Previous Research Director at Novartis

Joshua Funder BSc, LLM, D.Phil

  • GBS Venture Partners, Australia
  • Previous BCG strategy consulting San Francisco
  • Previous Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Boston

Rodney Pearlman, Ph.D. - CEO

  • Formerly co-founder, CEO and President, Saegis Pharmaceuticals
  • Previously SVP R&D, Valentis Gene Therapy
  • Previously Director, Pharmaceutical R&D, Genentech, Inc.
  • Previously Sr. Scientist, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Eli Lilly and Co.