John M. Rice

John Rice is Managing Director at CincyTech, LLC, a venture development company focusing on seed venture capital investment where he leads the life science practice, and a co-founder and former Managing Partner of Triathlon Medical Ventures, both based in Cincinnati. He has 30 years of venture investing and 13 years of research and R&D management experience in biomedical science. He has strong relationships in the scientific community from the 26 years he spent in biomedical research and R&D management at Battelle and Senmed.

Rice was a Managing Director of Senmed Medical Ventures from 1989 until 2003. Previously, Rice spent 13 years with Battelle Memorial Institute serving in various research projects, research management, and business development capacities. He has authored numerous scientific publications and holds patents in the fields of virology and immunology.

Rice earned his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Microbiology and Virology from The Ohio State University.