Jeremy Curnock Cook

Jeremy is a veteran in the life sciences/healthcare industry and has been actively supporting the commercialization of healthcare innovations and helping entrepreneurs build their international businesses over the past 45 years. Founder and Managing Director of BioScience Managers, Jeremy brings his decades of international experience to our investment team, to support the identification of investment opportunities and in the strategic assessment of value creation options, in particular through M&A and expansion into new geographies. He actively supports portfolio companies through his executive and non-executive roles.

Over his career, Jeremy has successfully managed in excess of US$1billion in equity investments. He launched the first dedicated biotechnology fund for the Australian market and is a former head of the life science private equity team at Rothschild Asset Management, an early pioneer and significant investor in the sector. In his early career he founded the International Biochemicals Group which he successfully sold to Royal Dutch Shell. He co-created a European-focused seed fund with Johnson & Johnson and built the International Biotechnology Trust. He has served on more than 40 boards of directors in the life science sector, in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Japan and Australia. Jeremy currently serves on the following boards: AVITA Medical Ltd appointed October 2012, Sea Dragon appointed October 2012, Rex Bionics Pty Ltd appointed February 2012, Armata Pharmaceuticals July 1995, SummatiX Pty Ltd appointed July 2017, Adherium Ltd appointed April 2015, JLCC Ltd appointed December 2019, Bioscience Managers UK Ltd appointed August 2017, Bioscience Managers Pty Ltd appointed January 2003, International BioScience Managers Ltd appointed March 2000, Arecor Ltd appointed October 2018, Smart Matrix Ltd appointed February 2013, and Gen InCode appointed July 2020.