Bard Geesaman

Biography

Bard Geesaman, M.D., Ph.D., joined our Board of Directors in 2004. Dr. Geesaman has been with MPM and associated portfolio companies since 2002. He has broad experience investing, operating and facilitating business development globally, including in Japan, China and Israel. Prior to joining MPM, Dr. Geesaman founded Catalyst Medical Solutions, a medical documentation and billing eHealth company in Boston, where he served as the Chief Technology Officer through the company’s acquisition. After Catalyst, Dr. Geesaman joined Centagenetix, an MPM-founded company exploring the genetics of successful aging. In 2006, Dr. Geesaman joined MPM as a Venture Partner with a major focus on founding Solasia Pharmaceuticals, based in Tokyo, which listed on the Tokyo Mothers exchange in March 2017. Dr. Geesaman is also the co-founder and a board member of MPM healthcare IT startup TriNetX (big data analytics for clinical trials). Dr. Geesaman is passionate about innovation in health care, and in 2008 took a two-year sabbatical from MPM to do non-profit work in Los Angeles at the X-Prize Foundation, where he worked on alternative models for motivating life sciences innovation. Dr. Geesaman serves as director of TriNetX, Inc., InformedDNA, Inc., Maverick Therapeutics and iOmx Therapeutics AG. Dr. Geesaman became board certified in Internal Medicine in 2000, after completing a Clinical Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his Ph.D. from MIT, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a B.S. from University of California, Berkeley. We believe Dr. Geesaman’s managerial experience and extensive experience in the healthcare industry qualifies him to serve on our Board of Directors.

Research Interest

Medicine