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As a Senior Associate and Kauffman Fellow in Safeguard's Life Sciences Group Jim is responsible for screening deals conducting due diligence for various acquisition opportunities and supporting Safeguard's partner companies.
Jim has eight years of operational financial and entrepreneurial experience in the life sciences. During business school Jim served as Summer Associate for Quaker BioVentures and Commons Capital and also completed an internship at Liquidia Technologies in business development. Prior he was in the Corporate Ventures/Business Development group of Becton Dickinson a F500 medical technology firm. From 1998-2001 Jim held progressive positions in Sales Marketing and Business Development at Chemdex a pioneering startup that raised $450M in financing. Jim started his career in R&D at Biosite and helped developed the firm’s blockbuster BNP panel diagnosing congestive heart failure ($600+M sales to date
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