Roger Wyse
Managing Director and General Partner
Burrill & Company
Dr. Roger Wyse is Managing Director and General Partner of Burrill & Company, a life sciences merchant bank and leading Life Sciences Venture Capital firm located in San Francisco, California. Dr. Wyse joined Burrill in 1998 and has led the development of Burrill & Company's agriculture, nutraceuticals, Health & Wellness, and industrial biotechnology related activities in venture capital investing, and merchant banking. The firm has over $1.2 billion under management.
Dr Wyse chairs or serves on the boards of 11 private companies. He is Co-Chairman of the $150M Malaysian Life Capital Fund and is a member of the International Advisory Panel for Biotechnology (BioIAP) for the Prime Minister of Malaysia. He was founder and Chairman of the Alliance for Animal Genome Research.
He has over 30 years of experience as an internationally recognized scientist and as a Dean at two major research universities; Rutgers and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Immediately prior to joining Burrill & Company, Dr. Wyse served for 5 years as Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1986 - 1992 he served as Dean of Research at, Rutgers University.
In research, Dr. Wyse earned international recognition for his basic studies in plant biochemistry. He published over 150 scientific papers. In recognition of his research accomplishments he received the prestigious Arthur Flemming Award in 1982 as the Outstanding Young Scientist in the US Federal Service. He was elected a Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America and The American Society of Agronomy. He also served as a consultant to numerous Fortune 500 companies.