Martin Driscoll

Biography

Marty joined Spring Bank in 2015 as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director. Previously, he served as CEO of Asmacure Ltée, a venture-backed, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company which he joined in late 2010. Asmacure Ltée was acquired by a privately-held Canadian life sciences company in July 2015. Prior to Asmacure, Marty was the CEO and a director of Javelin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly-traded developer of acute care pain products, from March 2008 until July 2010, when he engineered the merger of Javelin with Hospira, Inc. He also served in various senior management roles at Schering-Plough Corporation, ViroPharma, Inc. and Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In 2007, Marty co-founded Pear Tree Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately-held developer of women’s healthcare products. He has been involved with or led the commercialization of several important therapies, the direct negotiation of numerous licensing and M&A transactions, multiple private and public capital fundraising efforts and the successful submission of major product regulatory filings. Marty also served as a director on the boards of four private and public biopharmaceutical development companies and currently serves on the board of Asmacure Ltée. Marty holds a BSc in communications from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a trustee of the Barn for the Poorest of the Poor, a non-profit food pantry based in New Jersey.

Research Interest

 biopharmaceuticals