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Venture Partner

Chris Shepard, Ph.D.

  • Chris is a Venture Partner at Apollo and leads severalportfolio companies after incubation
  • Chris co-founded Avogadro Development Corp and Structured BioEquity. He was also the CEO of SmartZyme Biopharma, an OrbiMed portfolio company, where he was in charge of the company’s R&D efforts and an global investor base.
  • In the previous years he supported over $1.5bn in investments and transactions in biotechnology/pharma spanning research, drug program development, combination product development, clinical trial design, and personalized medicine and biomarkers.
  • Chris started his career at Genentech where he worked on the development of several medicines and a number of pipeline assets. He earned his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School of Medicine

  • Chris is a Venture Partner at Apollo and leads severalportfolio companies after incubation
  • Chris co-founded Avogadro Development Corp and Structured BioEquity. He was also the CEO of SmartZyme Biopharma, an OrbiMed portfolio company, where he was in charge of the company’s R&D efforts and an global investor base.
  • In the previous years he supported over $1.5bn in investments and transactions in biotechnology/pharma spanning research, drug program development, combination product development, clinical trial design, and personalized medicine and biomarkers.
  • Chris started his career at Genentech where he worked on the development of several medicines and a number of pipeline assets. He earned his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School of Medicine