Bart is a Managing Director at the Novartis Venture Fund and its Head of Transactions & Legal based in Basel, Switzerland. He currently serves on the board of Enterprise Therapeutics Holdings and UZH Life Sciences Fund and was previously on the board of Oculis (until its NASDAQ IPO), Inflazome (until it was acquired by Roche) and Enterprise Therapeutics (until its TMEM16A program was acquired by Roche).
Prior to joining NVF, Bart held various senior roles in Novartis’ Corporate Legal M&A and BD&L groups. Before joining Novartis in 2009, he was with the Investment Banking Division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and, before that, he was an attorney with the Corporate/M&A Group at the law firm of Allen & Overy LLP in New York. Bart holds Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees from McGill Law School in Canada and is a member of the New York State Bar.