Mr. Courtney

Biography

Mr. Courtney has extensive experience in venture capital, business development and strategic planning.  Prior to joining FACIT, Mr. Courtney was Managing Director of Verde Ventures, a management consulting firm specializing in providing financial and strategic advice to companies in the life sciences, health care and technology. Mr. Courtney is Co-founder and CEO of Sempra Therapeutics, a dermatology startup company.  As General Partner at VG Partners, Mr. Courtney was part of the leadership team that oversaw the $250M Advanced Life Sciences Fund. Mr. Courtney also was a partner at CDP Sofinov, President of Faulding Canada Inc., Executive Vice-President of Pharmascience Inc. and held various senior positions with Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Courtney has served on numerous boards of directors for public and private enterprises in the biomedical industry and is currently a director on the boards of the Ontario Preclinical Imaging Consortium, Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization, DLVR Therapeutics, XLV Diagnostics and Turnstone Biologics. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the MaRS Discovery District’s Investment Accelerator Fund.  Mr. Courtney holds a BSc in microbiology from the University of Guelph.

Research Interest

microbiology,venture capital, business development and strategic planning