Jeffery S. Vick

Jeff brings more than 25 years of senior management experience in the business and legal side of the Biopharmaceutical Industry in both the USA and Europe. He has particular expertise in Gene Therapy, having built the business development and Intellectual Property group at Genethon from 2012 – 2106, served as VP Business Development and IP at the GenCell division of Aventis from 2002 – 2006 and negotiated and signed many collaborations in the area including those which formed the founding products for both Audentes and GenSight.

Mr. Vick has worked as a venture capitalist, founded, grown and sold multiple companies, and served as CEO of the publicly traded company Silence Therapeutics from 2007– 2008. In 1992 he joined the senior management team of the seed stage start- up company DepoTech Corporation (now the publicly traded company Pacira) as head of Business Development, Intellectual Property and Market Research. He and his colleagues grew the company from 5 to 300 people, brought an oncology product from preclinical stage through registration, built and certified a GMP manufacturing facility to support product launch, signed multiple collaborations, and took the company public prior to leaving in 1997 to join Sanderling Venture Capital. Pacira now has 3 products on the market started during his tenure.

He earned an MBA from Stanford University, an MS Chemistry from UC San Diego and a BS Chemistry from the University of Virginia. Jeff has lived in Europe since 2000.