Christian Cortis

Chris brings to the team, 20+ years of combined experience in strategic finance, business development and venture capital. He was most recently Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Finance at Agenus. Prior roles include lead business development professional for Synta and Gemin X, Principal with Advanced Technology Ventures, and Associate in Booz Allen & Hamilton’s pharma practice in NY. His deal experience includes 42 buy-, sell-side transactions and financings, with nearly $400 Million in resulting aggregate cash inflows. Chris served as interim CEO for Tectonic during the company’s first year of operation. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University, where he was also a post-doctoral fellow in Molecular Biophysics, and is the inventor of computational methods for molecular modeling that have been commercialized in drug discovery applications.