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Rowan Chapman

Non Executive Director at Cambridge Innovation Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Rowan Chapman is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and board member based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a strong background in biochemistry and molecular biology. With key roles at companies like BEVC as Co-Founder and Johnson & Johnson as Senior VP, Head of Innovation, Western North America, Australia & New Zealand, Rowan has made significant contributions to the healthcare and lifesciences sectors through venture financing and business development strategies. Noteworthy highlights of Rowan's career include founding BEVC and holding senior leadership positions at Johnson & Johnson, as well as serving on the boards of various companies such as Cornerstone AI, Natera, and Evidation Health, showcasing expertise in business strategy, venture capital, and board governance.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder

    2023 - Current

    Investing in early stage companies at the intersection of science, engineering, and computation.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Building a completely new way to quickly structure, standardize, and clean healthcare and clinical data using AI.

Cornerstone AI provides the cleaning and standardizing of data and too analyzing it.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from Healthy Ventures, Acrew Capital, Arif Nathoo, Travis May, Web Sun, Initiate Studios, Healthy Ventures and Initiate Studios.

  • Non Executive Director

    2022

    A leading venture investor in Cambridge backing and building category-leading deep tech and life sciences companies.

  • Board Member

    2021

    An automated platform to enable a richer understanding of individual cell behaviors, interactions, and functions across a range of stimuli and parameters, at massively parallel scale.

Cellanome engages in cutting-edge synthetic biology and informatics methods through its multi-omics platform.

Raised $213,714,701.00 from PremjiInvest.

  • Board Member (NTRA)

    2019

    Committees: Chair Compensation, Member Audit Natera® is a worldwide genetic testing and diagnostics company that’s changing how doctors and patients manage genetic disease. Our team includes clinicians, scientists, biostatisticians, researchers, and talented laboratory professionals from around the globe.

  • Co-Founder, Advisor

    2020

    Initiate partners with entrepreneurs to launch innovative companies built on bold ideas. We focus at the intersections of healthcare, life sciences and technology. Founder success is our success.

  • Board Member

    2014 - 2024

    Independent board member Committees: Chair Compensation, Member Audit Evidation Health seeks to improve health outcomes through clinically and economically beneficial digital health solutions and new approaches to predictive analytics.

We enable and empower everyone to participate in better health outcomes.

Raised $259,000,000.00 from OMERS Private Equity, McKesson Ventures, B Capital and Kaiser Permanente Ventures.

  • Senior VP, Head of Innovation, Western North America, Australia & New Zealand

    2017 - 2019

    Led the J&J California team responsible for entrepreneurial ecosystem collaborations, deals and investments across Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Consumer sectors. Drove deal structures including co-development, licensing, sponsored research and investment with negotiated terms ranging to >$1B.

Johnson & Johnson is a healthcare provider, expertise in innovative medicine and MedTech for every patient & for everyone.

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2018

    Initially CEO, then board member. Acquired by Thorne (THRN) Drawbridge Health is focused on enabling personal diagnostic testing – anytime, anywhere with a people-friendly system for collecting and stabilizing blood samples

Drawbridge Health helps doctor’s offices and clinics to collect blood samples for testing on site with a handheld device.

  • Global Head of Healthcare Investing

    2015 - 2017

    Managed team responsible for GE Ventures’ healthcare investing strategy, portfolio, venture partnerships and thought leadership. Oversaw creation of three new businesses, managed portfolio of >20 healthcare investments plus LP positions and portfolio company partnering. Member of GE Ventures investing committee, reviewing and approving investments and partnerships across GE verticals (energy, connected environments, iOT/digital, healthcare, advanced manufacturing).

  • Managing Director Healthcare Business Creation

    2014 - 2015

    Created new businesses for GE at intersection of data, consumer and healthcare. Internal entrepreneur forming companies as interim CEO from ground up - coordinating market analysis, business and operating plan, internal/external asset and IP negotiation, setting up structure and governance, financing, hiring and partnering strategy.

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