Team

Richard Kayne, MBA

General Partner

Successful Investor | Entrepreneur | Inventor | Strategist

Leen Kawas, PhD

Managing General Partner

Entrepreneur | Inventor | Biotech Executive | Corporate Financing and Development

Xue Hua, PhD

Managing Partner

Clinical Research | Clinical Operations | Data Science | Entrepreneur

Jim Harding, CPA, CMA

Finance

Certified Public Accountant | Certified Management Accountant

Erik Gonzalez-Leon, PhD

Analyst

Biomedical Engineering Translation Research | Technical & Patentability Assessment

Sam Berry, PhD

Analyst

Life Sciences and Bioengineering Translational Research | Competitive Landscape Analysis | Entrepreneurship Consulting

Joyce Jiang, MPH, PhD

Analyst

Health Economics & Market access | Business Development | Clinical Trial Design & Real-World Evidence | Pharmaceutical Policy

Safiya Alavi

Associate, Data Science and Research

Armaan Hirani

Intern

Medical and Investment Advisory Board

Ron Farkas, MD, PhD

Senior Advisor

Product, Medical, and Regulatory Strategies | Neurology | Pulmonology | Rare Diseases | Ophthalmology

Sylvia McBrinn, MBA

Senior Advisor

Entrepreneurship & Startups | New Product Commercialization | Executive Management

Mike Gibbs

Senior Advisor

Neuroscience | Biopharmaceutical Executive | New Product Commercialization | Marketing

Ronald Lee Krall, MD

Senior Advisor

Pharma Executive | Product Approvals | Ethics | Drug Development and Regulatory Sciences

Erik D. Laursen, MS

Advisor

Product Development Strategies | CMC | GMP | Operations | Business Development

Suzanne Hendrix, PhD

Advisor

Drug Development | Regulatory & Clinical Strategies

Richard Sudek, PhD

Advisor

Leadership Development | Technology | AI | Firm Creation | Strategy | Entrepreneurship

Carol Criner

Advisor

Corporate Growth & Scale | 5G | Entrepreneurship | Strategic Partnerships