Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Domain Associates
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Investor Type Investment Partner
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Mr. Dovey has served on Otonomy’s board of directors since August 2010. Mr. Dovey has been a Partner of Domain Associates, L.L.C., a private venture capital management firm focused on life sciences, since 1988. Prior to joining Domain, Mr. Dovey spent six years at Rorer Group, Inc. (now part of Sanofi-Aventis), including as president from 1986 to
1988.
Previously, Mr. Dovey was president of Survival Technology, Inc., a startup medical products company. He also held management positions with Howmedica, Inc., Howmet Corporation and New York Telephone Company. Mr. Dovey has served as both president and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. He is the former chair, but now serves on the board of trustees, of the Wistar Institute, a leader in preclinical bio-medical research in the non-profit sector.
Mr. Dovey serves on the board of directors and is also chairman at the Center for Venture Education (Kauffman Fellows Program) and on the La Jolla Playhouse Board of Trustees. Mr. Dovey is also on the Venture Advisory Board of the Skolkovo Foundation. Mr. Dovey currently serves on the board of directors of public companies Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of obesity, and REVA Medical, Inc., a medical device company.
He is a trustee emeritus of Germantown Academy and is a former trustee of the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Nursing and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. He was also a former board member of the industry associations representing the medical device industry as well as the association representing consumer pharmaceuticals.
Mr. Dovey has also served as a member of the board of directors of the following publicly traded companies: Align Technology, Inc., Cardiac Science, Inc. and Neose Technologies, Inc. Mr. Dovey received his master’s degree from Harvard Business School and bachelor’s degree from Colgate University.