Mr. de Ribains has 15 years of experience in Life Sciences venture capital investing in pharmaceuticals, medical device, and diagnostics companies. This enabled him to develop broad experience in the financing of medical innovations, assessment of technologies and products, and design of valorization strategies. Thus Mr. de Ribains gained strong expertise in the financial and development strategies for biotech start-ups. Until recently Mr. de Ribains served for 10 years at Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners where he was responsible for many investments and held Board seats. Prior to that, he was at Atlas Venture as an Analyst and then Investment Director. Mr. de Ribains started his career in biotech consulting, then worked in a genomics start-up (Boston, US). He is a Molecular biologist by training.