Innovation Advisory Committee.
Due Diligence
IAC
The Innovation Advisory Committee (IAC) will advise on financial investments for the advancement of technologies that 1) address dire gaps in the standard of care for people who are at risk or diagnosed with cancer; and 2) demonstrate a clear path to patient access.
Regina Leung
Regina is currently Chief Business Officer at CSSi Lifesciences, a consulting firm that provides regulatory support to clients. Regina is also the Founder of MayFlower Health, a consulting firm that supports commercialization strategies including brand, managed markets and market entry for pharmaceutical and medical devices companies. Prior to MayFlower Health, Regina worked in commercial roles within large biopharmaceutical companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, PDL Pharma, and Gilead Sciences, as well as at McKesson, a global life sciences distributor where she started the first generic drugs portfolio program for the hospital market and holds a patent for an oncology practice management solution. Regina also worked as a market access Principal at IQVIA and CapGemini, headed their West Coast business and supported market access strategies for large brands including Enbrel, Aimovig and Actemra and medical devices such as Dexcom.
Regina serves as an advisor to various accelerators including SkyDeck (University California at Berkeley) and California Life Sciences Institute (CLSI) and is an exit advisor at Keiretsu Capital. Regina holds an undergraduate degree in Biological Chemistry from the University of Warwick, England, and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Andy Fisch
Andy is a frequent speaker at industry and client events. Known for expertise across many asset classes, top-down analysis and a successful global investor. His skills and experience span the globe, from capital markets to corporate structure, technology both as tools and investments, broadly defined from semiconductors to biotech, quantitative and fundamental investment approaches. Decades with family offices plus more than a decade as an institutional investor, numerous committees, corporate boards and held FINRA 24 and 7 principal licenses. A disciplined, common-sense investor, building on information, an aversion to “following the crowd” and attention to detail.
His 40 years investing experience exclusively in “buy-side” activities within alternatives, trading, hedge and venture capital. Two decades investing on behalf of Swiss family and multi-family offices, then 12 years as a CIO of a global institutional hedge FOF and back again with mostly Euro family offices. From the beginning he built his own research and trading software, leading to then investing in technology both public and progressively towards private companies. All combined with a top-down macroeconomic and geopolitical framework, particularly cycle aware.
Andy was a Managing Director at Investcorp, who acquired the FoF business of SSARIS he ran. As CIO, FoF at SSARIS (State Street Absolute Return Investment Strategies), joining shortly after inception; expanded the portfolio globally and business into Billions USD, accumulating a dozen awards for risk adjusted performance. In-house platforms, managed accounts, dynamic allocation across assets, strategies and geography used the global footprint of SSgA. His responsibilities included overseeing its research team and due diligence process.
From the family office world, he was a founding partner, managed the Aurum Venture Fund and developed the precursor to his hedge fund of funds tenure. Aurum was formed as an outgrowth of the hybrid hedge fund he had run for 8 years, investing solely in Venture Capital and privates. Venture investments yielded a number of IPO and buyout exits, almost 100 private transactions (leading many) in dozens of companies.
Its investors included the Swiss, Weeden&Co., cellular pioneers and partners of major VC firms. Prior to his move to the Swiss MFO, he spent 5 years with Victor Sperandeo as a prop trader within his hedge fund (New Market Wizards). Trading commodities, stocks, options and futures using software he built. A natural transition for an economics major who wrote the school’s econometrics software and whose Honors and Baccalaureate topic was the Global Depletion of Energy Reserves.
John Alderete, Ph.D., M.B.A.
As the co-founder, Vice President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Xenotope Diagnostics, Inc. he
led the project team responsible for developing the OSOMTM rapid Trichomonas test currently
being sold at Sekisui Diagnostics, Japan (formerly Genzyme Diagnostics, Cambridge, MA). John was responsible for coordinating product development, commercialization, clinical, quality and regulatory activities, including the management of the FDA approval process for two successful 510(K) submissions.
Prior to forming Xenotope Diagnostics, Inc., John was a senior consultant and project manager
at Plan A, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology consulting firm in Palo Alto, California, where he
focused on strategic planning decisions in complex diseases, new markets and new technologies.
He utilized a combination of formal market research and analytical modeling methods,
together with in-depth scientific and clinical understanding for projects concerning pipeline
prioritization, pre-and post-launch sales forecasting, opportunity assessments in existing and
new indications, in-and out-licensing opportunities, and reimbursement analysis. His clients
included leading multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies such as Amgen,
Inc., Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Biogen, Inc., Genentech, Inc., Imclone Systems, Inc., Ortho
Biotech, and Virologic, Inc (now Monogram Biosciences).
For the Stanford University School of Medicine, John’s role as the Senior Associate Director for
Corporate and Foundation Relations was instrumental in helping to define the corporate
engagement landscape for the School of Medicine.
Venture Partners, LLC (TTVP), which was formed in late 2004 and has since participated in
financing for Vidacare Corporation and the formation and initial financing of CardioSpectra and
serves on the advisory board of health-care Venture Capital groups.