Brian H. Dovey
board of director
Orexigen Therapeutics
Orexigen
Australia
Biography
Brian H. Dovey has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2004. Mr. Dovey has been a Partner of Domain Associates, L.L.C., a private venture capital management firm focused on life sciences, since 1988. Prior to joining Domain, Mr. Dovey spent six years at Rorer Group, Inc. (now part of sanofi-aventis), including as president from 1986 to 1988. Previously, Mr. Dovey was president of Survival Technology, Inc., a 6 start-up medical products company. He also held management positions with Howmedica, Inc., Howmet Corporation and New York Telephone Company. Mr. Dovey has served as both president and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. He is Chair of the Wistar Institute, a non-profit preclinical biomedical research company. Mr. Dovey serves on the board of directors and is also Chairman at the Center for Venture Education (Kauffman Fellows Program). He was also a former board member of the industry associations representing the medical device industry as well as the association representing consumer pharmaceuticals. In the past five years, Mr. Dovey has also served as a member of the board of directors of the following publicly traded companies: Align Technology, Inc., Cardiac Science, Inc. and Neose Technologies, Inc. Mr. Dovey received his B.A. from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics