NLVP - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer / New York

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder / Managing Director / New York
• Managing Director at New Leaf Venture Partners
• Managing Director, New York, NY

Ron Hunt is a Managing Director at New Leaf Venture Partners, and focuses on early to late stage investments in biopharmaceuticals. Ron was one of the founders of New Leaf in 2005, and today has over 25 years of experience investing in and building companies focused on developing novel medicines that address important unmet medical needs. Prior to his start in venture capital in 1998, Ron was a strategy and operations consultant to clients in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. His experience also includes a number of sales and marketing positions with Johnson & Johnson and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. Ron is a graduate of The Wharton School (M.B.A.) and Cornell University (B.S.).

Job Titles:

• Managing Director
• Co - Founder / Managing Director / Menlo Park
• Managing Director, Menlo Park, CA

Vijay Lathi is a Managing Director focused on information convergence and diagnostics investments. Vijay joined Sprout in 1998, was promoted to Partner in 2003, and was one of the founders of New Leaf in 2005. Prior to focusing on information convergence, Vijay's investment activity covered a range of healthcare technologies including HCIT, diagnostics and therapeutic platforms, and was the founding investor in both Ilypsa (sold to Amgen) and Relypsa (RLYP). Prior to joining Sprout, Vijay was an analyst in the Healthcare Venture Capital Group at Robertson Stephens & Co. and analyst at Cornerstone Research, a consulting firm focused on financial and economic analysis for business litigation. Vijay graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University where he received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering, with an emphasis on the application of engineering to life science technology.