BOARD OF STRATEGIC ADVISORS
The Excel Board of Strategic Advisors ("BSA") is composed of physicians, scientists, business executives, and entrepreneurs who Excel considers to be thought leaders in their fields and invaluable resources for Excel. Members of the BSA assist the Excel team in identifying investment opportunities and in assessing the technical or commercial merits of a technology. The BSA members may also be available to assist portfolio companies in finding solutions to challenges in technology development and in identifying exit opportunities.
Anthony Atala, M.D.
Professor and Chair (Urology) and Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Co-founder Tengion, Inc.
James Collins, Ph.D.
Boston University Professor; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics, Boston University; MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award"; Co-founder Cellicon
Gregory Critchfield, M.D., M.S.
Former President of Myriad Genetics, Former CMO of Corning Labs (now Quest). Member of Board of Directors of BioTrove, Biocius, and Saladax
John Fallon, M.D.
Retired, former Senior Vice President, Chief Physician Executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Prior to BCBSMA, he was CEO for the clinical enterprise at the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center. Currently on the board of Exact Sciences (Nasdaq: EXAS), Insulet (Nasdaq: PODD) and Amag Pharma (Nasdaq:Amag).
Steven R. Gullans, Ph.D.
CEO of Gemphire Therapeutics; Former Managing Director, Excel Venture Management; Co-Founder Orionis Biosciences
Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D.
Ford Professor of Economics, MIT; Director, Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research; President, American Society of Health Economists; Associate Editor Journal of Public Economics
David C. Kiernan, M.D., J.D.
Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP, a leading intellectual property and healthcare attorney in the U.S.
Joseph Loscalzo, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Creagh E. Milford D.O., M.P.H.
President of Population Health Services of Mercy Health, the largest Clinically Integrated Network in Ohio
Gideon Searle
Managing Partner of The Serafin Group LLC, as well as a Director of Kinship Trust Company Family Liaison, The Searle Scholars Program
Adam Singer, M.D.
Retired, former Founder, CSO, Chairman and CEO, IPC The Hospitalist Company
Hamilton Smith, Ph.D.
Nobel Laureate; Founder Celera and Synthetic Genomics
Mervyn Turner, Ph.D.
Former Chief Strategy Officer of Merck & Co., Former Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets, Merck Research Laboratories
J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
Founder Human Genome Sciences, Celera, Diversa, Synthetic Genomics; Sequenced the human genome