James Merselis

Jim has over forty years of experience in healthcare, including twenty-two years at Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics (now Roche Diagnostics). Jim has led a number of healthcare diagnostic start-ups. From 2002 to 2007, he served as President and CEO of HemoSense, a point-of-care diagnostics company which he successfully took public (AMEX: HEM) and sold two years later to Alere (NYSE: ALR). He has also served in leadership roles at several other start-ups, including Nexus Dx (now Samsung), Alverix (now Becton Dickinson), and Micronics (now SONY). Jim is a Managing Director of Synchrony Bio, a seed stage biomedical and life science venture fund. Jim also serves on the board of several other biotechnology and diagnostics companies including Trinity Biotech, Kypha, and Abram Scientific.