The Triana Venture Partners are coordinated by an executive team leveraging on the experience of a Senior Advisory Board gathering some of the country’s leading entrepreneurs, scientific, financial, and industry experts.
Triana Leadership Team
- Jabril Bensedrine, PhD, Founder and Managing Director
- Michel Berty, PhD, Senior Advisor; Former Founder, Chairman and CEO of CapGemini USA
- Geert Cauwenbergh, PhD, Senior Advisor; Founder and CEO Phases123; Former Founder, Chairman and CEO of Barrier Therapeutics ; President-elect of Bio New Jersey
- Bill Fontana, Senior Advisor; Former Division Head at CitiGroup, Incubator Manager of SCI2
- Ari Ginsberg, PhD, Senior Advisor; Professor at New York University Stern School of Business; Former Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at NYU Stern
- Erik Grimmelmann, PhD, Senior Advisor; SVP, Technology and Service Operations, SWN Communications, Inc.; Former SVP Technology Infrastructure at Dun&Bradstreet; Held senior positions at AT&T; Board Member of New York Software Industry Association
- Tamar Howson, MBA, Senior Advisor; Member of JSB-Partners; Former SVP Corporate and Business Development at Bristol Myers Squibb; Former SVP and Director of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development at SmithKline Beecham; Advisory Board Member of the Biotechnology Council of New Jersey
- Jerry Sanders, Senior Advisor; Founder and Managing Director of San Francisco Science
- Thierry Teil, MD, MBA, Senior Advisor; Global Head of Medical Affairs of UCB Pharmaceutical
- Jacques-Olivier d'Halluin, CFO & Head of Operations
- Andrea Lewis, Executive Search and Team Development
For confidential consideration please contact Andrea Lewis via e-mail at employment@trianagroup.com - David-Alexandre Baranes, Eng, MS, Project Manager
Our functional Advisors
Our team mobilizes the functional expertise of Advisors including:
- Paul Borgese, MBA, Marketing and E-Business
- Jerome Chevallier, PharmD, MBA, Pharmaceutical Affairs
- Rhonda Evans, PhD, Financial Services and Investment Analysis
- Paul Feffer, PhD, Diligence & Financing, Development & Operations
- Jonatan Jelen, JD, MBA, Legal Affairs and Organizational Development
- Domenico P. Loschiavo, MBA, Debt & Equity Finance
- Jason McNichol, PhD, Strategy and social venture development
- Peter Rachor, BS, Technology Transfer
- Tom Schmidt, PhD, Information Technology
- John Sweeney, BA, Business Development
Our panel of experts
TRIANA works also with a panel of numerous industry experts who hold leadership positions in the private and public sectors. It includes CEOs and senior executives within the worlds of finance and private equity, directors of public institutions, and managers of international corporations.
Our scalable resources
In addition, we mobilize the ressource depth and scope of key financial, corporate, consulting and institutional organizations in the United States, Europe and beyond with which we have on-going collaborations.
Our key partners are: