Barbara J. Dalton

Barbara Dalton joined Pfizer in 2007 to manage the Pfizer Ventures Investments team within Worldwide Business Development. She is responsible for growing their corporate venture activities, managing the corporation’s private equity portfolio, advising on structured equity transactions and driving novel transactions to achieve corporate objectives. Dr. Dalton has more than 20 years of corporate venture capital experience in the pharmaceutical industry supporting and managing teams involved in indirect and direct health care investments in more than 40 funds and over 100 companies in the U.S. and Europe. She has had direct investing responsibility for biotechnology therapeutic and platform companies, as well as some healthcare IT and service businesses. She is currently on the board of Cydan, Vtesse, Ixchelsis, The Accelerator Crop, Petra and Lodo and supports several other PVI portfolio companies as a board observer. Dr. Dalton began her pharmaceutical career as a research scientist in immunology at SmithKline and French Laboratories and joined their venture capital group, SR One, Limited in the early 1990’s. She was also a founding member and General Partner with EuclidSR Partners, a private venture capital firm, where SmithKline (now GSK) was a leading limited partner.

Dr. Dalton has also been supportive of the many regional and national organizations encouraging innovative startups in health care. She chaired the Philadelphia regional venture investors association, (fka the MAC Alliance), and has been a member of the National Venture Capital Association Board. She also supported the venture philanthropy efforts of the Institute for the Study of Ageing as a Board member. Currently she is the chair of the advisory board for the health care sector of the New York City Investment Fund and an advisor to the Dean of the Eberly College of Science, at Penn State where she received her undergraduate degree. She received a PhD in microbiology and immunology from The Medical College of Pennsylvania (now the Drexel University College of Medical School).