Gary Kurtzman

Gary has 25+ years of experience in operations and investments. He joined Safeguard Scientifics in 2006 where he is responsible for identifying, deploying capital in and supporting emerging healthcare companies in diagnostics, medical devices and healthcare IT. Gary is currently a board member of Good Start Genetics, Medivo, meQuilibrium, Propeller Health, Syapse and Trice Medical and is a board observer at Velano Vascular. He recently realized successful exits with partner companies Advanced BioHealing, Alverix, Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Crescendo Biosciences and NuPathe to strategic acquirers Shire, Becton Dickinson, Eli Lilly, Myriad, and Teva, respectively. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer at Pluvita Corporation, a company developing personalized medicine solutions and served as Chief Operating Officer at Genovo, and head of research & development at Avigen, both development stage gene therapy companies. Gary began his career in industry with Gilead Sciences as virology group leader. Gary received his MD degree from Washington University, trained in internal medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, MO, and completed hematology sub-specialty training at Stanford.