Juan Enriquez, BA, MBA
Managing Director
Excel Venture Management
Biography
Mr. Enriquez is an experienced business leader, author, and academic who is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. He is a Managing Director in Excel Venture Management, a venture capital firm that invests in companies that apply transformative life science technologies to solve problems in healthcare and beyond.
He has been an active investor in early-stage private companies in the biotechnology and information sciences sectors. He was the founding director of Harvard Business School’s Life Sciences Project. While at Harvard, he wrote various articles and case studies, won a McKinsey Prize, and published the best-selling As the Future Catches You, an analysis of the impact of genomics on business and society. Mr. Enriquez serves on a number of boards. He previously served as CEO of Mexico City’s Urban Development Corporation, Coordinator General of Economic Policy and Chief of Staff for Mexico's Secretary of State, and as a member of the Peace Commission that negotiated the cease-fire in Chiapas' Zapatista rebellion.
He earned a BA and MBA from Harvard, with Honors.