Wayne B. Weisman
Mr.
Weisman has been a member of the investment committee of Vitalife Life Sciences
Fund since its inception, and has worked closely with Vitalife since SCP
Partners became Vitalife’s U.S. sponsor in 2002. He has extensive experience in
venture capital investing, particularly in the life sciences area, dating back
to 1990.
Mr. Weisman has
been a partner of SCP, a multistage venture capital manager, since its inception
in 1996. He has led SCP’s efforts in the life sciences area, which include
investments in Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUXL), in which SCP was
the first investor, and investments in Deep Breeze Ltd. and Trig Medical, both
of which are also Vitalife portfolio companies. He has also led several other
technology investments for SCP.
In 1990, Mr.
Weisman joined Churchill Investment Partners, Inc. as a managing director, and
later that year became vice president and a member of the board of directors of
CIP Capital L.P., a Small Business Investment Company licensed by the SBA in
1991. Mr. Weisman led many of the successful life science investments made by
CIP.
From 1992 to
1994, Mr. Weisman served as executive vice president of Affinity Biotech, Inc.,
a life science company with drug delivery and pharmaceutical formulation
technology. At Affinity, he was responsible for strategic alliances, financial
strategy, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Weisman completed several strategic
partnerships for the company, and he ultimately oversaw its IPO and merger into
the company that subsequently became IBAH, Inc., a leading clinical research
organization, which was then successfully sold to Omnicare Inc.
From 1987 to
1990, Mr. Weisman operated a management and financial advisory firm focusing on
the reorganization and turnaround of troubled companies. He began his career in
1982 at the Philadelphia law firm of Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul.
Mr. Weisman is a director or chairman of several companies, including CinemaStar,
Inc., Gigared S.A., Anystream, Inc., Deep Breeze, Ltd. and Trig Medical, Inc.
Mr. Weisman received his B.A.
cum laude
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and his J.D. from the University of
Michigan Law School in 1982. He is a former board member of the Greater
Philadelphia Venture Group, and he currently serves on the board of the Young
Scholars Charter School.
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