Mark E. Pearson

Mark is the Founder and CEO of Altamont Pharmaceutical Holdings as well as the Co-Founder and General Partner of Annex Ventures. Mark has been investing in startup Life Science and Technology companies for over 20 years.

Mark is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Drawbridge Realty, a San Francisco based real estate development and investment company, which owns over 6 million square feet of commercial real estate leased to Technology and Life Science companies predominantly in the western United States. Drawbridge Realty's portfolio exceeds $1.7 billion in asset value. In December 2014, Drawbridge Realty formed a partnership with international asset management firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, LP (“KKR”) which made a significant investment in the company to substantially grow the platform.

Mark was the Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Board member of CRESA Partners, a corporate real estate services firm, and was instrumental in building CRESA into a 57-office national company. In 2015, he sold his interest in CRESA to Savills plc, a $2.4 billion international real estate firm with over 700 offices and 39,000 employees worldwide.

Mark is the Founder and CEO of Perceptive Real Estate Equities LLC, a real estate development and investment company based in Austin, TX with offices in Silicon Valley and La Jolla, CA.

Mark is the Co-Founder and serves on the Board of Directors of Cessation Therapeutics, LLC, a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California.

Mark serves on the Board of Trustees of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, a world-renowned biomedical research institute employing over 2,400 scientists and support staff. Scripps Research Institute has created 80+ spin-off biotech companies, 10 FDA approved drugs, and currently has 30 drugs in its pipeline.

Mark was the founding donor of The Pearson Center for Addiction Research, which was founded in 2003 on The Scripps Research Institute campus in La Jolla, California by Mark Pearson, Dr. George Koob, Ph.D., and Dr. Barbara Mason, Ph.D.

Mark earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of San Francisco and a Masters degree in Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was a Sloan Fellow.