James Blair

Mr. Blair is a Founding Partner of Domain 1985. Present board memberships include Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Cell Biosciences, Five Prime Therapeutics, GenVault, NeuroPace, Novacea, NuVasive, Pharmion and Volcano. Mr. Blair has over thirty-five years experience with venture and emerging growth companies. In the course of this experience, he has been involved in the creation and successful development at the Board level of over forty life sciences ventures, including Amgen, Aurora Biosciences, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Applied Biosystems, Dura Pharmaceuticals, GeneOhm Sciences and Molecular Dynamics. A former managing director of Rothschild Inc., Mr. Blair was directly involved at a senior level with Rothschild/New Court venture capital activities from 1978 to 1985. From 1969 to 1978, he was associated with F.S. Smithers and Co. and White, Weld and Co., two investment banking firms actively involved with new ventures and emerging growth companies. From 1961 to 1969, Mr. Blair was an engineering manager with RCA Corporation, during which time he received a David Sarnoff Fellowship. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and he is on the Advisory Boards of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Blair graduated from U. of Pennsylvania with his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in 1969 and from Princeton University with his B.S.E. in 1961.