Sean McCarthy, D.Phil., MBA
Principal
Sean has ten years of operating experience in the biotechnology industry in business development, program management and research management. He has held positions at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and SGX Pharmaceuticals, an oncology focused biotechnology company located in San Diego, where he served as Vice President of Business Development. Under his leadership SGX entered into a wide range of strategic partnerships with major pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly, Roche and Novartis, with whom a $515M oncology alliance was forged in March 2006 to develop novel therapies for chronic myelogenous leukemia. Prior to SGX, Sean was responsible for research into gene discovery and for management of several drug discovery programs at Millennium. His discovery team invented novel genomic techniques for the identification of therapeutic proteins and played a central role in a major alliance with Eli Lilly. He is the author of 17 peer reviewed scientific publications and an inventor on 29 issued patents and filed patent applications. Sean joined Pappas Ventures in August 2006 and is a board observer at CoLucid Pharmaceuticals.
Education
King’s College London (B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Pharmacology)
Oxford University (Doctorate – D.Phil.)
UC San Diego Rady School of Management (MBA)