MITEF UK Event - Strategies for Maximizing ROI from Entrepreneurial Innovation
A technologist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Dr. Afeyan has co-founded and helped build over 20 successful life science and technology startups during the past two decades. Currently Dr. Afeyan serves on a number of public and private company boards. He is a director and co-founder of Flagship, a venture capital fund with around $600m under management and interests in VC/private equity, cleantech/energy, technology, and life sciences. Flagship has an active portfolio of 40 companies including Affinnova, BG Medicine, Ensemble Discovery, Genstruct, Helicos BioSciences, Joule Biotechnologies and LS9. Previously, Dr Afeyan was a member of the founding team, director and investor in several successful ventures including Chemgenics Pharmaceuticals, Color Kinetics, Antigenics, EXACT Sciences and Adnexus Therapeutics. He was also founder and CEO of PerSeptive Biosystems, a leader in the bio-instrumentation field. After PerSeptive's acquisition by Applera Corporation, he became Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Applera, where he initiated and oversaw the creation of Celera Genomics. Dr. Afeyan is a member of the Board of Overseers of Boston University and the Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he is a member of several advisory boards including the Whitehead Institute at MIT, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and the SKOLKOVO School of Management in Moscow. Dr. Afeyan is also co-founder and board member of Armenia 2020 and the National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia, two international economic development projects focusing on the former Soviet Republic of Armenia. In 2008 he received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor, an award granted to outstanding Americans who have distinguished themselves as U.S. citizens and who have enabled their ancestry groups to maintain their identities while becoming integral parts of American life. Simmons & SimmonsSimmons & Simmons is a worldclass international law firm in tune with the business world. From its offices in major business and financial centres throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, the firm focuses on four significant industries: life sciences, financial institutions, energy and infrastructure and technology, media and telecommunications. PenfoldsPenfolds has been producing remarkable Australian wines since 1844. With over 160 years of history, the heritage of the brand sets it apart from other new world wines, making it one of the most prestigious winemakers in the world. Global Entrepreneur Programme - UKTIThe Global Entrepreneur Programme identifies and provides overseas entrepreneurs with global potential in the life sciences and information and technology sectors with Dealmaker support and assistance to successfully establish new technology based opportunities and global headquarters in the UK About the MIT Enterprise Forum of the UKPart of an international network of MIT Enterprise Forums providing connections between technology entrepreneurs and its global communities, the UK Forum is open to all individuals, entrepreneurs and investors passionate about driving technological enterprise and innovation, whether MIT alumni or non-alumni. |
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Noubar Afeyan is Managing Partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a firm he co-founded in 2000. He is also a Senior Lecturer at MIT in both the Sloan School of Management and the Biological Engineering Department. Dr. Afeyan has authored numerous scientific publications and patents since earning his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from MIT in 1987.
