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Start-Up Stadium Judges & Advisory Committee
Thank you to the industry stakeholders behind the BIO Digital Start-Up Stadium.
2020 Start-Up Stadium Judges
Gain access to these talented industry leaders who will be providing feedback across the entire early-stage life cycle.
| Name | Title | Company |
| Alice Chen | Vice President | Accelerator Life Science Partners |
| Merika Koday | Associate | Accelerator Life Science Partners |
| Samuel Wu | Managing Director | Acuris Partners |
| Ving Lee | Chief Scientific Officer | Adesis, Inc. |
| Christine Boisrobert | Global Pharma Market Director | Air Liquide |
| Jeffrey L. Cleland | Chairman, CEO & President | Ashvattha Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Dorothee Marie-Louise Doepfer | Program Director Digital Health Accelerator & Community Building | Berlin Institute of Health |
| Caleb Bell | Venture Partner | Beyond Next Ventures |
| Ashok Chander | Advisor | Cellanyx |
| Alice Jacobs | CEO | Convergence Group, LLC |
| William D. Provine | President and CEO | Delaware Innovation Space |
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Tania Fernandez |
Founder & CEO | Dream Catcher Ventures |
| Ravi Kiron | Head, BioPharma External Innovation | EMD Serono/Merck KGaA Silicon Valley Innovation Hub |
| Lior Teitelbaum | Chief Business Officer | Futurx |
| Maurice Lee | Program Director | German Accelerator Life Sciences |
| Jorge Ramirez | Principal | H.I.G. BioHealth Partners |
| Amy Gu | Managing Partner | Hemi Ventures |
| Marc Martin-Casas | Seed Investments & Development | Illumina Accelerator |
| Alex Shen | Technical Operations Strategy | Kite Pharma, a Gilead Company |
| Jae Sly | Senior Scientific Advisor | L2C Partners |
| Lesley Stolz | Managing Director | Lasana Partners |
| John Lilly | Managing Member | Lateral Capital Management |
| Jeffrey Safran | Special Counsel | McCarter & English, LLP |
| Ashwini Ghogare | Manager, AI-Enabled Drug Discovery, Global Strategy Group | MilliporeSigma |
| Terri Shieh-Newton | Member, Intellectual Property | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC |
| Terry Moore | Managing Partner & Founder | Moore Venture Partners |
| David Crean | Managing Director | Objective Capital Partners, LLC |
| Michael Margolis | Managing Director, Co-Head of Healthcare | Oppenheimer & Co, Inc |
| Janet E Reed | Partner- Intellectual Property | Potter Anderson |
| Walter Olesiak | Partner | Remiges Ventures |
| Jun Axup | Scientific Director & Partner | SOSV/IndieBio |
| Arvind Gupta | General Partner/Founder | SOSV/IndieBio |
| Vinit Nijhawan | Executive Director | The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center |
| Alice Cheng | Associate | Upfront Ventures |
| Kevin Zhang | Partner | Upfront Ventures |
| Claire Aldridge | Associate Vice President | UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
| Cees de Wit | Co-Founder / Partner | Whale Bay & Co. |
| Julie Meigs | Partner | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP |
| Kristen Cramer | Partner | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP |
| David Fox | Public/Private Investor | |
| Charlotte Hubbert | Partner | Gates Foundation Venture Capital |
2020 Start-Up Stadium Advisory & Investor Committee
Comprised of experienced leaders with perspective on current issues and priorities for the industry, the Start-Up & Investor Advisory Committee members represent top investment and stakeholder companies. Meet the experts driving innovation in our industry.
| Name | Title | Company |
| Alice Chen | Vice President | Accelerator Life Science Partners |
| Samuel Wu | Managing Director | Acuris Partners |
| Jeffrey L. Cleland | Chairman, CEO & President | Ashvattha Therapeutics, Inc. |
| Vinit Nijhawan | Managing Director | Boston University |
| Ashok Chander | Advisor | Cellanyx |
| Amy Gu | Managing Partner | Hemi Ventures |
| Marc Martin-Casas | Seed Investments & Development | Illumina Accelerator |
| Jun Axup | Science Director | IndieBio |
| Jae Sly | Senior Scientific Advisor | L2C Partners |
| Kathryn Zavala | Vice President | MedTech Innovator |
| Ravi Kiron | Head, BioPharma External Innovation | Merck KGaA |
| Terri Shieh-Newton | Member, Intellectual Property | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC |
| Lewis Geffen | Member, Business & Finance | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC |
| Terry Moore | Managing Partner & Founder | Moore Venture Partners |
| David Crean | Managing Director | Objective Capital Partners, LLC |
| Michael Margolis | Managing Director, Co-Head of Healthcare | Oppenheimer & Co, Inc |
| Walter Olesiak | Partner | Remiges Ventures |
| Laurie Actman | Chief Marketing, Communications & Program Officer | University of Pennsylvania |
