Primary Job Title Managing Director Primary Organization 
Excel Venture Management
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
Investor Type
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Juan Enriquez is a Managing Director at Excel Venture Management. He is a leading authority on the economic impact of life sciences on business and society, and a respected business leader and entrepreneur.
He represents Excel on the boards of Shape Up the Nation, Fina Technologies, Catch.com, and Synthetic Genomics, as well as Activate
Networks.
Prior to Excel, Enriquez was the Founding Director of the Harvard Business School’s Life Sciences Project, with many of his innovative thoughts captured in his bestselling book, As the Future Catches You, which provides an accurate blueprint of how a bio-based economy changes industries and corporations.
Following HBS, Enriquez became an active angel investor and founder of Biotechonomy Ventures, which invested in BioTrove, Xcellerex, and Synthetic Genomics, a company he co-founded with Drs. J. Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith, to apply life sciences to energy markets.
As a business leader, advisor, and renowned speaker, he works directly with the CEOs of a number of Fortune Fifty companies, as well as with various heads of state, on how to adapt to a world where the dominant language is shifting from digital towards the language of life.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT), and he graduated from Harvard with a B.A. and M.B.A., both with honors.
