PureTech is led by a proven and seasoned management team. Collectively, they have overseen the research and development of products supporting 27 regulatory approvals and have been involved in the C-suite of companies acquired for more than $14 billion in the aggregate.

Team

Daphne Zohar

Daphne Zohar

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Directors

Daphne Zohar is the founder and chief executive officer of PureTech and a member of the board of directors. She has also served as the founding chief executive officer of a number of PureTech's Founded Entities. A successful entrepreneur, Ms. Zohar created PureTech, assembling a leading team to help implement...MORE
Bharatt Chowrira, PhD, JD

Bharatt Chowrira, PhD, JD

President and Chief Business, Finance and Operating Officer

Bharatt Chowrira, PhD, JD, is the president and chief business, finance and operating officer at PureTech and is a member of the board of directors. Prior to joining PureTech, Dr. Chowrira was the president of Synlogic, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing synthetic microbiome-based therapeutics, from September 2015 to...MORE
Eric Elenko, PhD

Eric Elenko, PhD

Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer

Eric Elenko, PhD, is the chief innovation officer at PureTech where he has led the development of a number of programs, including Akili Interactive Labs, Inc., Gelesis, Inc., Karuna Therapeutics, Inc. and Sonde Health, Inc. Prior to joining PureTech, Dr. Elenko was a consultant with McKinsey and Company where he...MORE
Julie Krop, MD

Julie Krop, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Julie Krop, MD, is the chief medical officer at PureTech, where she is responsible for all clinical development, regulatory, CMC, and medical affairs for PureTech's clinical-stage Wholly Owned Pipeline. Prior to PureTech, Dr. Krop served as Chief Medical Officer at Freeline Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company. She also previously...MORE

Board & R&D Committee

Daphne Zohar

Daphne Zohar

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Directors

Daphne Zohar is the founder and chief executive officer of PureTech and a member of the board of directors. She has also served as the founding chief executive officer of a number of PureTech's Founded Entities. A successful entrepreneur, Ms. Zohar created PureTech, assembling a leading team to help implement...MORE
Christopher Viehbacher

Christopher Viehbacher

Chair of the Board of Directors

Chris Viehbacher has served as a member of PureTech’s board of directors since 2015 and as chair since September 2019. He is the managing partner of Gurnet Point Capital, a Boston based investment fund associated with the Bertarelli family and has a $2 billion capital allocation. He is the former...MORE
Dennis Ausiello, MD

Dennis Ausiello, MD

R&D Committee Member

Dennis Ausiello, MD, is a member of the PureTech R&D Committee. He is the Jackson Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine and was previously director, emeritus of the MD/PhD Program at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ausiello is chairman of medicine, emeritus and director of the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous...MORE
Joseph Bolen, PhD

Joseph Bolen, PhD

R&D Committee Member

Joe Bolen, PhD, is the former chief scientific officer at PureTech. Dr. Bolen has more than 30 years of industry and research experience and has been at the forefront of cancer and immunology research. Dr. Bolen most recently oversaw all aspects of research and development for Moderna Therapeutics as president...MORE
Bharatt Chowrira, PhD, JD

Bharatt Chowrira, PhD, JD

President and Chief Business, Finance and Operating Officer

Bharatt Chowrira, PhD, JD, is the president and chief business, finance and operating officer at PureTech and is a member of the board of directors. Prior to joining PureTech, Dr. Chowrira was the president of Synlogic, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing synthetic microbiome-based therapeutics, from September 2015 to...MORE
H. Robert Horvitz, PhD

H. Robert Horvitz, PhD

Board Observer, R&D Committee Chair

H. Robert Horvitz, PhD, is a board observer and chair of the R&D Committee at PureTech. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is the David H Koch Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, neurobiologist (Neurology) at...MORE
Raju Kucherlapati, PhD

Raju Kucherlapati, PhD

Independent Non-Executive Director, R&D Committee Member

Raju Kucherlapati, PhD, has served as a member of the board of directors at PureTech since 2014. He is the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is an independent non-executive director at PureTech and sits on PureTech’s R&D Committee. Dr. Kucherlapati currently...MORE
John LaMattina, PhD

John LaMattina, PhD

Independent Non-Executive Director

John LaMattina, PhD, is an independent non-executive director at PureTech and has served as a member of the board of directors since 2009. Dr. LaMattina was previously president of Pfizer Global Research and Development and held positions of increasing responsibility during his 30-year career at Pfizer, including vice president of...MORE
Robert Langer, ScD

Robert Langer, ScD

Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director, R&D Committee Member

Robert S. Langer, ScD, is a co-founder, member of PureTech’s R&D Committee and has served as a member of the board of directors since the Company’s founding. He has served as the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT since 2005. He is one of 12 institute professors, which is...MORE
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an independent non-executive director at PureTech. She is a pioneering biotech entrepreneur, a healthcare visionary, a global influencer and a passionate philanthropist. She is a pioneer of India’s biotech industry and founder of Biocon. Ms. Mazumdar-Shaw holds key positions in various industry, educational, government and professional...MORE
Sharon Barber-Lui

Sharon Barber-Lui

Non-Executive Director, Audit Committee Member

Sharon Barber-Lui is a board member and member of the Audit Committee at PureTech. Ms. Barber-Lui has been the Senior Vice President of Finance at EQRx since January 2022. Prior to joining EQRx, Ms. Barber-Lui worked at Merck for over twenty years in roles of advancing responsibility, including most recently as...MORE