Richard D. Propper

Biography

Dr. Propper is an experienced venture capitalist, merchant banker and financial strategist. He received a BSc from McGill University and a MD from Stanford University. Dr. Propper worked as a Research Fellow in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He was also a Fellow in Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Fellow in Pediatric Oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Center, and Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He has published over 40 papers and three textbook chapters, and is renowned for his clinical research in thalassemia major. In 1984, Dr. Propper found Montgomery Medical Ventures, the largest seed-stage medical venture capital firm in the country at that time, with $135M in capital. In 1993, he founded the International Medical Development Corporation to pursue healthcare ventures worldwide. In 1998, he co-founded Medibuy.com., the largest Internet-based medical procurement company in the US. In 2001, Dr. Propper founded Chardan Ventures, the predecessor to Chardan Capital, LLC, a financial strategic consulting firm building business between Chinese and US companies In 2003, he raised his first SPAC, Chardan China Acquisition Corporation, which eventually merged with Origin Agritech, and is currently a NASDAQ-listed company (SEED). In 2005, he raised two more SPACs, one of which became NASDAQ-listed HollySys (HOLI). Dr. Propper currently serves on the Boards of FreeLinc Technologies, Inc. and HyEdge, Inc. He joined the Board of Directors at Enterin Inc. in 2016.

Research Interest

pediatrics