Ron Eastman
Managing Director
Board of Directors
symphogen
Denmark
Biography
Mr. Eastman, Managing Director of Essex Woodlands, has over 30 years of experience in building healthcare businesses. Mr. eastman began his career at American Cyanamid Company, where he spent 15 years managing pharmaceutical products, divisions and subsidiaries in the U.S. and overseas. Since then, Mr. Eastman has helped build three private healthcare companies - Geron, HCORP, and Rinat Neuroscience. Under his leadership, Geron became a cutting-edge biotech company which grew from a venture-backed startup to a publicly traded pioneer in the fields of regenerative medicine and cancer. HCORP quickly established itself as the technology and market leader in the emerging field of hospital-based, interactive patient services and was sold to a diversified competitor. At Rinat, Mr. Eastman led the effort to build the first company dedicated to discovering and developing large molecule drugs for treating nervous system disorders.
Research Interest
Healthcare businesses
