Roopom Banerjee

Roopom is a life science business leader with 20 years’ experience covering strategy, financial advisory, operational and scientific roles. He has broad experience with startups to global Fortune 500 companies advising on corporate strategy, portfolio design, product development and commercialization, financing, partnerships and acquisitions. Most recently, he was President and CEO of RainDance Technologies (acquired by BioRad Labs) and led the company to become a pioneer in Liquid Biopsy for detecting cancer from a blood test.

Previously, Roopom led teams at McKinsey, Leerink and Goldman Sachs where he completed 80+ healthcare transactions raising over $10Bn in capital financings, 30+ IPOs, and 20+ M&A transactions. His earlier career spanned scientific cancer research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Human Genome Project.

A biochemist and economist by training, Roopom has a graduate degree from Harvard and two undergrad degrees from MIT where he was elected a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar.