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Investment Professionals

Venture Partners

Advisory Board

Strategic Relationships

Limited Partners


 
THE TEAM

We know firsthand what it takes to build a successful company - from inception through sale or operation as a public company. We have been entrepreneurs ourselves; we have formed companies, financed companies, built management teams and negotiated with "Wall Street".

The Radius executive team is supported by actively engaged Venture Partners and a committed Advisory Board, each with stellar credentials.

It all adds up to a very powerful team with high-level relationships spanning the health and life sciences industry, the venture capital community and Wall Street.
 
Investment Professionals
      
Jordan S. Davis
Jordan S. Davis is a Managing Partner of Radius Ventures, which acts as the Investment Advisor to the Radius Funds. Prior to Radius, Jordan served as a Managing Director at KBL Healthcare, Inc., a health and life sciences venture capital and investment banking organization, and cofounded and served as Vice President and Director of KBL Healthcare Acquisition Corp., a publicly-traded Specified Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). Previously, Jordan was primarily engaged in financial advisory and money management having served for five years in the Private Client Services and International Equity divisions of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. He was a founder of Cambridge Heart, Inc., a cardiology device company, and Voxware, Inc., a speech technology company, both companies that achieved IPOs in 1996. Jordan currently serves on the boards of directors of Athersys, Inc., Health Language, Inc., and Heartscape Technologies, Inc., each portfolio companies of Radius. He also serves on the board of HealthCorps, a charitable health education organization, and as a mentor in the Kauffman Fellows Program. Jordan earned an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. in Economics from The State University of New York at Binghamton.
 
Daniel C. Lubin
Daniel C. Lubin is a Managing Partner of Radius Ventures, which acts as the Investment Advisor to the Radius Funds. Previously, Daniel was a Director in the Investment Banking Division of Schroder Wertheim & Co., where he shared responsibility for managing the Health Care Group. Daniel co-founded and was a Managing Director of KBL Healthcare Inc., a health and life sciences venture capital and investment banking organization, and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of KBL Healthcare Acquisition Corp, a publicly-traded Specified Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). His prior affiliations include Manufacturers Hanover Trust and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he served as Special Assistant to the Chairman. He was a founder of Cambridge Heart, Inc. and currently serves on the board of directors of Management Health Solutions, Inc., a Radius portfolio company. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of The Haverford School and was recently appointed to the National Counsel of Advisors of the Center for the Study of the Presidency. Daniel earned a B.S. cum laude in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School.
       
Sanuj K. Ravindran
Sanuj K. Ravindran is a Principal of Radius Ventures and currently is an Observer on the Boards of Ambit Biosciences, Athersys Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHX) and Resolvyx Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining Radius in February 2007, Sanuj was a Director at Burrill & Company, a San Francisco based life science venture capital firm. While with Burrill, he served as a board observer to diaDexus Inc. and Proventys Inc., and played an active role in several other investments, including Endocyte Inc., Neosil Inc., Cardiokine Inc. and Arete Therapeutics. Previously, Sanuj worked in the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and served as a National Cancer Institute Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is also a member of the Kauffman Fellows Program at the Center for Venture Education. Sanuj received a B.A. with Honors from Northwestern University, an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College, and an M.B.A from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was a Rothschild Scholar.
 
Justin Silver
Justin Silver is a Senior Associate with Radius Ventures. Prior to joining Radius in 2008, Justin served as an Associate with Ferghana Partners where he specialized in life sciences private placement and corporate partnering transactions. Justin has also worked for the healthcare team at New Enterprise Associates where he concentrated on venture capital financings and strategic advisory work for its portfolio companies. Justin received a BS in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis and a MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Georgetown University where he graduated first in his class. Justin is a graduate of the Harvard Business School where he received the Dean's Award for leadership within the Harvard community and where he served as Co-President of the Harvard Business School Healthcare Club.
       

 

Venture Partners

  Floyd D. Loop, M.D. became a Radius Venture Partner in 2007 after having served on Radius' Advisory Board since 2005. Dr. Loop has been affiliated with The Cleveland Clinic Foundation since 1970, where he most recently served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Governors from 1989 to 2004. Dr. Loop was previously Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery from 1975 to 1999. Dr. Loop is also the former President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and has served in numerous leadership roles in the areas of science and education. He currently serves on the board of directors for Athersys, Inc., a Radius portfolio company, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, and Intuitive Surgical, Inc., and several private corporate boards. He has written extensively, with over 350 publications to date, and has served on numerous healthcare editorial boards. Dr. Loop received his B.S. in Science from Purdue University and his M.D. from George Washington University.
   
  James M. Mead became a Radius Venture Partner in 2007 after having served on Radius' Advisory Board since 2004. Mr. Mead is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Capital BlueCross (Harrisburg, PA), after having served twenty years as its President and CEO from 1984 to 2004. From 1988 to 2004, he also served on the board of directors of the BlueCross BlueShield Association, sitting on many national committees and chairing its Plan Performance and Financial Standards Committee. He is also the former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Mr. Mead is currently a member of the board of directors of the Hershey Trust Company, the Milton Hershey School, the Milton S. Hershey Foundation, the Greater Harrisburg Foundation, Vitality Group, LLC, and Lebanon Valley College. Mr. Mead holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in economics from Penn State University and was appointed an Alumni Fellow of the University in 1986.
   
  Dilip J. Mehta, M.D., Ph.D. became a Radius Venture Partner in 2004. Dr. Mehta is the former Senior Vice President of U.S. Clinical Research at Pfizer, Inc., where he was responsible for Phase I, II and III clinical research, including the design and implementation of clinical protocols, statistical analysis, data processing, and submissions of New Drug Applications ("NDA") for Pfizer's pharmaceutical pipeline. During Dr. Mehta's tenure at Pfizer, he supervised NDA submissions for many of the company's previously top-selling drugs, including Norvasc™, Zoloft™, Zithromax™, Diflucan™ and Viagra™. Dr. Mehta currently serves on the board of Targanta, Inc., which is a Radius portfolio company, and was on the boards of a number of U.S. and international biotechnology companies. Dr. Mehta has also served on the board of the Psychopharmacology Advisory Committee of the FDA. Dr. Mehta received his MBBS, M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Bombay.
   
  George M. Milne, Jr., Ph.D. became a Radius Venture Partner in 2002. From 1993 to 2000, Dr. Milne served as President of Central Research for Pfizer, Inc. and oversaw both human and veterinary research and development. Following Pfizer's merger with Warner Lambert, he held the position of Executive Vice President of Global Research and Development and also served as President of Strategic and Operations Management. Dr. Milne serves on the board of directors of several Radius portfolio companies, including Athersys, Inc., BioStorage Technologies, Inc., and Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where in 2008 he took on the role of Executive Chairman. Dr. Milne previously served on board of two other Radius portfolio companies, Conor Medsystems, Inc. and Phylogix, Inc. Dr. Milne also currently serves on the board of directors of Mettler-Toledo, Inc., Charles River Laboratories, Inc., the Mystic Aquarium-Institute for Exploration and the New York Botanical Garden. Dr. Milne received a B.S. in Chemistry from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
   
  Jan Rock became a Venture Partner of Radius Ventures in 2002. Prior to becoming a Venture Partner, Ms. Rock, through her venture capital firm, MedCapital, had a strategic relationship with Radius that included deal sourcing, due diligence, co-investing and a membership interest in the General Partner of Radius II. MedCapital makes investments in early-stage healthcare companies. Previously, Ms. Rock served as Vice President of Women's Health at Johnson & Johnson ("J&J"). At J&J, she was responsible for expanding the company's two billion dollar franchise in women's health products, which resulted in the $290 million acquisition of Biopsys Medical, the $79 million acquisition of Gynecare, Inc., and the creation of a new J&J venture, Women's First Healthcare. Ms. Rock currently serves on the board of directors of U-Systems, Inc., a Radius portfolio company. She has also served as a director or observer to several venture stage companies, including Amicas, Inc. and BEI Medical, Inc. (both Radius portfolio companies) as well as Immunicon, Inc., Protocare, Inc, and Purilens, Inc. Ms. Rock received a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
     
 

Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board serves as a brain trust, offering leadership, industry contacts and resources.

Brian J. Brille is a Managing Director and Global Head of Investment Banking of Banc of America Securities. Mr. Brille was previously a Managing Director and Head of Healthcare Services Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

Vincent S. Conti is the recently retired President and Chief Executive Officer of Maine Medical Center (MMC). Under his leadership, MMC repeatedly earned national recognition for the quality of its clinical services. Previously, Mr. Conti held the position of Senior Vice President-Administration at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. While at MMC, Mr. Conti was elected to the Board of the American Hospital Association (AHA), and the board of Health Insights.

Steven B. Epstein, Esq. is the founder of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., one of the largest national healthcare law firms in the United States. As a Senior Partner of the firm, he provides health care organizations and providers with strategic legal guidance on a range of issues and legal challenges relating to the American health care system. Mr. Epstein currently sits on the boards of a number of health care companies, including Discovery Health, HealthExtras and Emergency Medical Services Corp.

Scott T. Garrett is President and Chief Executive Officer of Beckman Coulter, Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of biomedical tests, instrumentation and supplies. Previously, Mr. Garrett served as Chief Executive Officer of Garrett Capital Advisors, LLC, Kendro Laboratory Products, and Dade Behring (a spinout of Baxter International). His prior experience also includes leadership positions at Baxter International and American Hospital Supply Corporation.

William A. Hawkins is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic, Inc. Previously, he has held the positions of President and CEO of Novoste Corporation; President of Sherwood Davis & Geck, (a subsidiary of American Home Products); President of Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson); President and CEO of IVAC, an Eli Lilly subsidiary, and President of Devices for Vascular Intervention of Guidant (following its spin-off from Eli Lilly).

Javier Lopez Madrid is an Executive Director of the Villar Mir Group ("VMG"), one of the largest privately-held industrial holding groups in Spain. Mr. Lopez Madrid is also the founder and Chairman of STH Capital, a venture capital partnership focused on them biotechnology, financial services and telecommunications industries.

David McGibney, MB, Ch.B., FRCP, FFPM is the Chairman of the Development Advisory Board of Athersys, Inc., a Radius portfolio company. David joined Pfizer in Europe in 1982 and was appointed head of European Clinical Development for Pfizer Central Research in 1992. He was later named Vice President of Clinical Research and a member of the Board of Directors of Pfizer Ltd in 1995. Prior to leaving Pfizer in 2001, he was Senior Vice President of Pfizer Global Research and Development and Director of the R & D Laboratories in Sandwich, Kent, UK.

James I. McLaren is a Managing Director of Asante Partners, LLC, an investment banking business which he founded in 1992 at EGS Securities Corp. He is also a Member of EGS Private Healthcare Associates, LLC, a private equity investment fund, and was formerly director of RTP Pharma, Inc., a drug delivery company that was purchased by SkyePharma plc.

Jeffrey W. Moses, M.D. is the Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at Columbia University Medical Center and an interventional cardiologist at New York- Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center.

Thomas F. O'Donnell, Jr., M.D. is the former President and CEO of the Tufts New England Medical Center and is currently the Senior Vascular Surgeon at Tufts New England and the Benjamin Andrews Professor of Surgery Emeritus at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Mehmet C. Oz, M.D. is Vice-Chairman of Surgery and Irving Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University. He is the Director of the Cardiovascular Institute, the Director of Clinical Trials of New Surgical Technology, and is a Director and founder of the Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Medical Center.

Stephen G. Pagliuca is a Managing Director of Bain Capital and has been involved in over 30 acquisitions of significant information technology and medical companies including Gartner Group, Burger King Corporation and ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. Previously, Mr. Pagliuca was a partner at Bain & Company.

W. Norman Scott, M.D. is Director of the Insall, Scott & Kelly Clinic in New York and Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was the founding member and President of the Knee Society. Dr. Scott was also the founder of Pro Team Physicians and has served as the Team Physician for the New York Knicks since 1978.

Leon G. Smith, M.D. is Chairman of Medicine and former Chief of Infectious Diseases at St. Michael's Medical Center in Newark, NJ. He is also Chairman of Medicine at the Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education and Professor of Preventative Medicine at New Jersey Medical School.

Mark S. Speers is Managing Director and co-founder of Health Advances, LLC, a strategy consulting firm focused on the evaluation and commercialization of new medical technologies and services. Previously, Mr. Speers served as a Partner at Bain & Company where he consulted for major health and life sciences companies.

Arthur H. Spiegel III is the former President of CSC Healthcare, which he developed into one of the nation's leading healthcare IT providers, delivering management consulting, systems integration, full-service IT outsourcing, and claims processing systems and services to the life sciences, health plan and provider markets. Mr. Spiegel currently serves on the board of directors of EyeTel Imaging, Inc. and BioStorage, Inc., both Radius portfolio companies.

Barry W. Wilson is the recently retired Senior Vice President, International of Medtronic, Inc. He joined Medtronic, Inc. in 1995, as President Europe, Middle East & Africa. Previously, Mr. Wilson held executive-level positions with American Cyanamid Company (President, International of the Lederle Division), Bristol-Myers Squibb (President, Europe) and Pfizer. He currently serves as Honorary Chairman of Eucomed, the pan-European medical technology trade association, and has been a senior advisor to AdvaMed, the U.S. medical device association.

 

Strategic Relationships

We have established several important relationships with outstanding organizations that augment our investment capabilities and enhance our value-added proposition to our portfolio companies.

  • Bain Capital and Radius have enjoyed a close and special relationship which was initially established in Radius I. Bain is a special member of the General Partner of Fund I, Fund II, and Fund III. The Bain relationship includes a capital commitment to Fund III by Bain or its affiliates, and provides for Bain to direct deal flow to Radius, taking into account the policies, duties, and obligations of Bain to the funds advised by Bain or its affiliates. Over the last eight years, Bain has proven to be an active source of deal flow for the Radius funds.
  • Health Advances is a strategy consulting firm focused on the evaluation and commercialization of new medical technologies and services. Its staff includes professionals with strong technical and clinical credentials. Our relationship with Health Advances expands Radius' knowledge base across the broad health and life sciences sector, and provides our portfolio companies access to Health Advances' expertise and vast industry and professional network.
 

Limited Partners

Radius has attracted a strong group of investors who can contribute to the success of our portfolio companies. Our investors include CEOs and senior professionals from a broad cross-section of the health and life sciences industry.

 
       
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