Terry McGuire

Terry McGuire is a Founding Partner of Polaris Partners. As a venture capitalist, he has invested in more than 50 companies and has also co-founded three companies: Inspire Pharmaceuticals (public and sold to Merck), AIR (sold to Alkemes), and MicroCHIPS (private). Companies that Terry has supported have raised over $6 billion in equity and corporate capital. In 2013, Terry was listed as one of Forbes’ Top Life Sciences Investors, and in 2011, he was listed in Forbes’ Midas 100 List of Top Tech Investors. He currently chairs the Board of the Thayer School for Engineering, Dartmouth College, and serves on the Boards of the David Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (HBS), and the Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board (HBS). Terry has a BS in physics and economics from Hobart College, an MS in engineering from The Thayer School at Dartmouth College, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.