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WYSE, Roger E
Roger E. Wyse is Managing Director and General Partner of Burrill & Company, a life sciences merchant bank and leading life sciences venture capital firm located in San Francisco, California. Dr. Wyse joined Burrill & Company in 1998 and has overseen venture capital investing, partnering, and the spinout of technology from large companies in the agricultural, nutraceutical, health and wellness, and industrial biotechnology fields. The firm has over $850 million under management.
Dr. Wyse chairs or serves on the boards of 11 private companies. He is Co-Chairman of the newly formed $150 million Malaysian Life Capital Fund. He is also a member of the International Advisory Panel for Biotechnology (BioIAP) for the Prime Minister of Malaysia. He was founder and Chairman of the Alliance for Animal Genome Research.
He has over 27 years of experience as an internationally recognized scientist and as a dean at two major research universities, Rutgers and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining Burrill & Company, Dr. Wyse served for five years as Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1986 to 1992, he was Dean of Research at Rutgers University.
Dr. Wyse earned international recognition for his basic studies in plant biochemistry. He has published over 150 scientific papers. In 1982, he received the prestigious Arthur Flemming Award for the Outstanding Young Scientist in the U.S. Federal Service. He was elected a Fellow of both the Crop Science Society of America and The American Society of Agronomy. He has also served as a consultant to numerous Fortune 500 companies.
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What the Public Sector Should Know about Venture Capital
Abstract:
Ready access to venture capital investments is vital to the success of start-up companies in the capital intensive high-technology sectors such as biotechnology. But there is a common misconception that an abundance of venture capital will spawn the formation of new companies. In fact, the opposite is true: new companies actually attract venture capital. This chapter provides an overview of the venture capital system, explains its importance, and identifies what qualities of a company make it attractive to venture capital investors. Some of the factors can be influenced by government action, so the chapter offers several ways that governments can encourage venture capital investment.
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