SAN FRANCISCO, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Burrill & Company, a San Francisco-based global leader in life sciences with activities in Venture Capital, Private Equity, Merchant Banking and Media, is pleased to announce that Joao Paulo V. Poiares Baptista has joined the firm as Managing Director, for both Burrill & Company and Burrill Latin America. Prior to joining Burrill & Company he served as a Director of Rio Bravo Venture Partners, an asset management firm created from the merger of MVP with the Venture Capital division of Rio Bravo Investimentos. Joao Paulo brings considerable experience to Burrill & Company including:
Joao Paulo graduated in Economy at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
"We are delighted to have Joao Paulo on board," said G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company. "As an entrepreneur, he has accumulated critical experience as an angel investor in technology-based companies in Portugal and Brazil, which will be invaluable in his new role. He expands our international team, focusing on Latin America, a major emerging player in the global growth of life science players. His experience as both an investor and entrepreneur not only complements our San Francisco-based Managing Director team but also he becomes our first internationally domiciled MD."
About Burrill & Company
Founded in 1994, Burrill & Company is a San Francisco-based global leader in life sciences with activities in Venture Capital, Private Equity, Merchant Banking and Media. The Burrill family of venture capital funds has over $950 million under management and its merchant banking business is one of the industry leaders in life sciences transactions. Burrill is also the creator, sponsor and facilitator of over a dozen leading industry conferences worldwide and publisher of a range of bio-intelligence reports including the monthly Burrill Report, which tracks the progress of the global biotechnology industry and our annual "State of the Industry" report, the latest of which is Biotech 2009-Life Sciences: Navigating the Sea Change, the 23rd annual report on the industry. The 470-plus page book contains analysis and perspectives on the performance of the industry in 2008 and projections for 2009 and beyond. www.burrillandco.com
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