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Anna is a Principal at Qiming Venture Partners USA, focused on healthcare investing. Prior to joining Qiming, Anna was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where she advised leading biopharma companies on their strategy and operations. She also led a global industry-academic consortium focused on cell therapy commercialization. Anna earned a D.Phil from the University of Oxford, UK where her research focused on hematological differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. Anna has over 20 publications in the field of stem cell research.

QM US portfolio: Anna serves on the board of WindMIL Therapeutics and is a board observer with Let’s Get Checked, Cadent Therapeutics and Platelet Biogenesis.

Prior to joining Qiming, Dr. Shen was a Managing Director and head of U.S. healthcare investing at Vertex Ventures Healthcare. Dr. Shen specializes in investments in biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. He has worked with seven companies that have since gone public or been successfully acquired, worth over US$2.1 billion in value. Notable past investments include Twelve (acquired by Medtronic), Entellus Medical (acquired by Stryker), Nellix Endovascular (acquired by ELGX), Bridgepoint Medical (acquired by BSC), Evalve (acquired by Abbott), Glycomimetics (IPO), Ivantis, and Moximed.

Previously, Dr. Shen worked at Essex Woodlands, a healthcare-focused venture capital and private equity firm. Prior to joining Essex, he worked at New Enterprise Associates, one of the largest diversified venture capital firms. Previously, Dr. Shen held the position of Senior Design Engineer at Guidant Corporation’s Neurovascular Venture, an internal start-up, where he invented and commercialized a minimally-invasive therapy for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Dr. Shen also worked in Japan as a Design Engineer for Pfizer Inc.’s Strategic Innovation Group, an internal medical technology incubator.

Dr. Shen is the US Executive Director of the Singapore Stanford Biodesign Program and a Consulting Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, focusing on medical technology innovation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford Business School. He has nine patents issued and several pending in the fields of interventional neuroradiology and interventional cardiology.

Dr. Shen received his MD, MBA, MS in Biomechanical Engineering and BS in Biological Sciences all from Stanford University.

QM US portfolio: Chris serves on the board of Cardialen

Gary Rieschel has over twenty-five years of successful operating and investing experience as a senior executive, entrepreneur, investor, and global business strategist. During his career, Mr. Rieschel held executive positions at Intel, Sequent Computer, Cisco Systems, and Softbank Corporation. Over the last 20 years as a venture capitalist, he led investments in 12 companies which grew to over $1B USD in market capitalization. Gary aided in the creation of the venture capital industry in China through sponsoring and founding several of China’s leading VC firms including Softbank China Ventures, SAIF Partners (2001), Ceyuan Ventures (2004), and Qiming Venture Partners (2006). He is Founding Managing Partner of Qiming, a firm with over $3B USD focused on early stage investments in China which is one of China’s premier VC firms. Mr. Rieschel’ s personal investment areas are Healthcare and Cleantech. He has sponsored investments in imaging systems (Alltech), clinical trial execution (Tigermed listed in 2013 in Shenzhen SZSE:300347), fuel cells (Bloom Energy), industrial waste water treatment (CSD Water and Sludge), clean coal technologies (LP Amina), smart meters (Hexin), bioengineering (Lanzatech). Qiming launched a U.S.-based health care fund in 2017.

Mr. Rieschel is well regarded as a mentor to entrepreneurs, founders, and other venture capitalists. He advised the China Greentech Initiative, and the Rocky Mountain Institute in its move to China. He actively supports the US China Clean Energy Forum, Asia Society, PERC (Property and Environmental Research), The Nature Conservancy, the Climate Leadership Council, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and the U.S. Olympic Foundation. Gary is a Trustee of Reed College. He served on the joint venture boards of Blackrock/Bank of China and Silicon Valley Bank/Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. Gary passionately supports entrepreneurs and pragmatic technology solutions for the resource allocation and environmental issues the world faces today.

Gary holds a BA in Biology from Reed College in Portland, OR, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He lived in Japan for five years in the late 1980s and lived in Shanghai from 2005 through 2016. He now lives in Seattle, WA.

QM US portfolio: Gary serves on the board of Madaket Health

Before joining Qiming, Dr. Hu was VP and Head of (External) Innovation Center China at Bayer Healthcare, responsible for building and managing partnerships for Global Drug Discovery with organizations in Greater China. Prior to that, she was Director of Licensing & External Research at Merck&Co covering Greater China for Worldwide Licensing & External Research.

She worked previously at Roche Palo Alto as Head of Functional Biology, at Affymetrix as Program Manager of Pharmacogenomics, and at Human Genome Sciences as Scientist of Protein Therapeutics.

Dr. Hu obtained her post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School, PhD from Univ. of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and BS degree in Biochemistry from Peking Univ. She is a board member of BayHelix and Chinese-American BioPharma Society (CABS).

QM US portfolio: Jennifer led our investment in ARMO BioSciences (acquired by Lilly)

Before joining Qiming in 2017, Mr. McDade was Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at UCB. He led UCB’s worldwide Geographic Operations, Established Brands, Technical Operations and Business Development. He joined UCB’s Executive Committee in 2008.

From 2002 until late 2007, Mr. McDade served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of PDL Biopharma, an antibody-based biopharma located in Redwood City, CA, USA. Prior to PDL, he served as CEO of Signature Bioscience, located in San Francisco, CA. Mark was founder and a director of Corixa Corporation, where he served as Chief Operating Officer from September 1994 to December 1998 and as President and Chief Operating Officer from January 1999 until his departure in late 2000 to join Signature. Before Corixa, Mark was COO of Boehringer Mannheim Therapeutics, the bio-pharmaceutical division of Corange, and prior to that held several positions at Sandoz Ltd. Including business development, product management and general management.

Mr. McDade serves on the Board of directors of FivePrime Therapeutics (FPRX), Dermira (DERM) and Aimmune Therapeutics (AIMT), all publicly traded biotechs in the SF Bay Area. Mark received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

QM US portfolio: Mark serves on the boards of Cadent Therapeutics, Let’s Get Checked, myHealthteams, Platelet Biogenesis, WindMIL Therapeutics and ZappRx. He led our investments in Kezar Life Sciences (KZR) and Twine Health (acquired by FitBit (FIT)).