Jean-Philippe Kouakou-Zebouah

Jean-Philippe Kouakou-Zebouah is the current Chief Financial and Operating Officer at Vida Ventures. Prior to this, they served as Senior Vice President - Finance at Versant Ventures from August 2017 to September 2019. From February 2009 to July 2017, they were the Senior Director - Head of Finance for US Bio Oncology Business Unit at Genentech. Jean-Philippe also served as the CFO at OQO from July 2007 to February 2009 and as the Director - Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) at Solectron from July 2006 to July 2007.

Kouakou-Zebouah began their career at Levi Strauss & Co in March 2002 as Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy. Jean-Philippe then moved to Booz Allen Hamilton in August 2000 as an Associate before joining PriceWaterhouseCoopers in July 1994 as a Manager.

Jean-Philippe Kouakou-Zebouah has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BS from ESSEC Business School, and is a CPA from CNAM - Paris.

They are on a team with Kate Bechtold - Senior Director, Investor Relations, Rajul Jain - Managing Director, and Alicia McCauley - Executive Assistant. Their manager is Arie Belldegrun, Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director. Some direct reports include Stephanie Ott - Senior Accounting Associate, Scott Mccurry - Senior Accounting Associate, and Travis Olson - Senior Accounting Associate.