Biography
Director
As Managing Partner of Epidarex, Mr. Dunlop leads the review and analysis of Epidarex investment candidates. A former international business and economics analyst with the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C., Mr. Dunlop has private equity and venture capital experience in Europe, the U.S. and Israel. Prior to founding Epidarex, Mr. Dunlop acted as the Director of New Business Ventures of MASA Life Science Ventures after a period as an Associate at New Vantage Group, manager of several early-stage venture capital funds in the Mid-Atlantic region. In May 2000, Mr. Dunlop received his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School where he was the R.C. Kopf British-American Fellow in international business. He also holds an M.A. with Honors in Political Economy from the University of Glasgow and an M.A. in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is a St. Andrews Society of New York Scholar.
Biography
Co-Founder, Director
Alec Machiels is a Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P., a private equity fund manager. Mr. Machiels is a member of the firm’s Executive and Investment Commitees. He has over fifteen (15) years of private equity investing and investment banking experience. Previously, Mr. Machiels was a Financial Analyst in the Financial Services Group at Goldman Sachs International in London and in the Private Equity Group at Goldman Sachs and Co. in New York. Investments in which he has been highly involved in include Pure Biofuels, Molycorp Minerals, Traxys, Slipstream Communications, Coffeyville Resources and Merisant Company. He also co-founded and serves as a board member of Potentia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which respectively have drugs in development to treat macular degeneration and rare diseases and COPD. He also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Federation of Arts where he chaired the endowment committee. Mr. Machiels is a graduate of Harvard Business School, KU Leuven Law School in Belgium and Konstanz University on Germany.
Biography
Director
Stephanie O’Brien represents Morningside Ventures and has extensive experience working with venture-backed companies focused on novel science. She focuses on early-stage companies, working with CEOs on building the management team and developing business plans. She has served on numerous private company boards, including Aduro Biotech, Inc., ViOptix, Inc., I-Behavior, Inc., Natural Polymer International Corp., Serica Technology, Inc., and BiddingForGood, Inc. She received her A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College and her J.D. from New York University School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Stephanie worked for Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., where she completed the loan officer credit training program and then worked in international portfolio analysis. After law school, Stephanie spent nine years as a corporate lawyer with Hale and Dorr in the Boston and Washington, D.C. offices, working primarily with venture capital finance and start-up companies.