Jord Cowan

Biography

Mr. Cowan holds Bachelor of Science (biochemistry & chemistry) from the University of Calgary with advanced studies in medical science research. After additional financial training Jord became involved with early-stage company development in 2005. Jord began his career as a founder of several for-profit and non-profit companies. Jord also worked as an associate with Argon Venture Partners, a cross-border early-stage venture capital firm and as an analyst for the Venture Alberta Forum (formerly Keiretsu Forum), which is an investment community of accredited private equity investors, venture capitalists and corporate/institutional investors. Prior to Parvus he was a manager of new company formation at University Technologies International LP (UTI), at the University of Calgary. Jord was instrumental in the early research and intellectual property activities that led to the formation of Parvus in 2009. Since then he has managed the R&D commercialization activities of Parvus, total expenditures in excess of $10 million dollars. As a result of his work with Parvus, Jord was recently an awardee of the Alberta Innovates - Commercialization Associate program. 

Research Interest

 Pharmaceutical Sciences