Our Experience With First-Time Biotech CEOs: Five Behaviors That Matter

Jumping into a first-time CEO role in an emerging biotech is a daunting but exciting opportunity – both for the newly-minted chief executive and their Board of Directors. A great hire can be positively catalytic to a startup; and, sadly, the unfortunate inverse is also true. In light of this, helping recruit the leading executive for a startup biotech is probably the most important job of an early stage venture investor.