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 |
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 |