John Holyoake

John Holyoake, Managing Director, Investment Banking, joined Bloom Burton & Co. in January 2012. At Bloom Burton, John’s responsibilities include M&A advisory, licensing advisory and monetization planning, as well as conducting technical and commercial due diligence of companies across all healthcare sectors. John’s area of expertise spans early-stage technologies to profitable healthcare service companies, with a particular focus on preclinical-stage biotech.

John is a member of the Board of Directors of Satellos Bioscience Inc., the Canadian Glycomics Network, and was a founding Board member of Triumvira Immunologics. Additionally, John is a member of the Core Evaluation Team for Genome Canada’s Genomic Applications Partnership Program.

John joined Bloom Burton from a background of industry experience in the clinical stage oncology company TenX BioPharma and at the life science consulting group SHI Link. John holds a Master’s in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, received a doctorate from the same institution and made the transition across the Atlantic for a post-doctoral research fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.