Avak Kahvejian
General Partner at Flagship Pioneering
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Founding CEO
2021 - Current
General Partner
2020
Partner
2011 - 2020
Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Board Member
2021
Founding CEO
2021 - 2023
Board Member
2020
Founding CEO
2020 - 2023
Board Member
2017
Founding CEO
2017 - 2020
Sail Biomedicines is a flagship pioneering company that is developing tomorrow's medicines today using life's language.
Board Member
2017
Founding CEO
2017 - 2020
Cellarity is a therapeutics company that uses genomic technologies, data science, and AI to develop a new generation of therapies.
Raised $294,000,000.00 from Kyowa Kirin, Flagship Pioneering and Hanwha Impact Partners.
Chairman of the Board
2021
Board Member
2017
Founding CEO
2017 - 2020
Ring Therapeutics is a gene therapy company focused on discovering and developing programmable genetic medicines.
Raised $253,500,000.00 from Altitude Life Science Ventures, Flagship Pioneering, UPMC Enterprises, CJ Investment, Partners Investment, T. Rowe Price, Alexandria Venture Investments, Invus and Kyowa Kirin.
Board Member
2018 - 2021
Founding Co-CEO
2017 - 2021
Board Member
2017 - 2021
Chief Innovation Officer
2019 - 2020
Founding President & CEO
2017 - 2019
Member Board Of Directors
2017 - 2019
Board Observer
2015 - 2017
Education
Ph.D.
1997 - 2004
B.Sc.
1993 - 1997
DEC
1991 - 1993
DES - High School
1987 - 1991