David Mott

Biography

David Mott joined New Enterprise Associates in September 2008 as a General Partner and leads the healthcare investing practice, which typically comprises roughly one-third of each fund, or $1.1 billion of healthcare venture investments every two-to-three years. NEA is a leading investor across all healthcare sub-sectors, including biopharma, medical technology, and healthcare services, and invests across all stages and geographies. Mr. Mott’s personal investing practice is primarily focused on biopharmaceutical investments. Prior to joining NEA, Mr. Mott was President and Chief Executive Officer of MedImmune, subsidiary of AstraZeneca Plc, and Executive Vice President of AstraZeneca. Mr. Mott joined MedImmune in 1992 and served in various roles including, from October 2000 through June 2008, president and chief executive officer, and previously chief financial officer, and president and chief operating officer. He led the sale of MedImmune to AstraZeneca in June 2007 for $15.6 billion. At the time of his departure in July 2008, MedImmune had annual revenues in excess of $1.5 billion, annual R&D in excess of $650 million and approximately 3,000 employees. Prior to joining MedImmune, Mr. Mott was a Vice President in Health Care Investment Banking at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc. where he focused on public and private equity and debt financings as well as mergers and acquisitions. He received a bachelor of arts degree in economics and government from Dartmouth College. Mr. Mott is currently Chairman of 3-V Biosciences, Adaptimmune (NASDAQ: ADAP), Ardelyx (NASDAQ: ARDX), Cydan, Epizyme (NASDAQ: EPZM), Imara, Mersana (NASDAQ: MRSN), and TESARO (NASDAQ: TSRO), and is a director of Clementia, Complexa, Nightstar, and Xtuit.

Research Interest

health care