Harsha Murthy

Harsha Murthy is a senior pharmaceuticals and finance executive who has served in numerous leadership positions in the private sector, government and on nonprofit and for-profit boards. Mr. Murthy is currently the Managing Partner of Consummate Capital, LLC, a New York City-based fund that invests in branded and legacy pharmaceutical therapeutic products. Prior to Consummate Capital, Mr. Murthy was founding and managing partner of Konanda Pharma Partners, a New York City-based private equity fund that invested in mature branded pharmaceuticals. Prior to Konanda, Mr. Murthy was Executive Vice President and Corporate Head of Strategic Planning and Business Development for King Pharmaceuticals, a S&P 500 vertically integrated pharmaceutical company where he led King's M&A, strategic licensing/alliance and divestiture activities.

Before that, Mr. Murthy was an early team member at Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, which was one of the most successful biotech startups in history as it developed a treatment for age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the Western World. Mr. Murthy has also served as a managing director at GE Capital, where he focused on international equity/infrastructure investments in Asia, Africa, South America and the U.S. as well as working with kRoad Ventures, a venture capital fund focused in the energy sector.

Mr. Murthy has served on numerous for-profit boards of directors, including those of Electrolux Corporation, Validus Pharmaceuticals (CNS products), Fontus Pharmaceuticals (rheumatology), MedDEV, Inc. (neuroscience) and TenduTV (digital media company). He has been an advisor to numerous start-up companies in the biotech, pharma, medical device and technology spaces. He is vice-chairman of the board of directors of the Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation (rare bone marrow diseases) and serves in leadership positions on numerous non-profit boards of directors in the arts, civil rights and education/scholarship fields. He is a member of the Duke Angel Investor Network and been an active member of innovation and entrepreneurship groups in New York, Washington, DC and North Carolina.

Mr. Murthy has been a frequent speaker on healthcare and international business issues before industry groups and at academic institutions such as Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, the University of Southern California Business School, Duke, Princeton and the University of Richmond. Mr. Murthy holds degrees from Duke and Stanford.