Michael Bettess

Michael is an Investment Manager at life science specialist venture capital firm Brandon Capital Partners (BCP). He is also an Executive Director at BCP investee companies Cincera Therapeutics Pty Ltd and is a Non-Executive Director at Wolf Biotherapeutics Pty Ltd and Foray Therapeutics Pty Ltd (also MRCF investee companies). His prior experience in commercialisation and investment includes leading commercialisation in the Faculty of Medicine at Monash University, the largest medical faculty in Australasia, and 5 years as an Investment Manager (Life Sciences) and acting CEO at the Trans-Tasman Commercialisation Fund where he led diligence on seed investments in HMBL Limited (acquired by Heart Metabolics Ltd.) and Nexvet Biopharma (NASDAQ – NVET: acquired by Zoetis in 2017). Michael holds a PhD from the University of Adelaide, a Hoffman La Roche post-doctoral fellowship at the Swiss Cancer Research Institute (ISREC) in Lausanne, Switzerland and has an MBA specialising in technology management from La Trobe University.