Alain Maiore

Alain Maiore is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Mnemo. Alain is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who brings 30 years of experience in executive leadership and board member experiences in Europe and the US to Mnemo. Alain started his career as CEO of Gene Shears, Pty Ltd., a company focused on ribozyme technology and one of the first historical gene therapy companies in the world. Alain then moved to Cerep as COO and Evotec as Executive Vice President of Business and Corporate Development, where he contributed to IPOs at both companies and executed large corporate and BD transactions. As a venture capitalist, Alain started out developing Ventech, a biotech franchise in Paris, then moved on to create and lead Kurma Partners for several years. Kurma Partners was built with the idea of assembling one of the first investment partnerships between venture capital and top-tier European academic institutions. Alain is a graduate from Ecole Superieure d’Agriculture d’Angers, and Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse.