The managing partners of Charter Life Sciences are Mr. A. Barr Dolan, Dr. Donald C. Harrison, Mr. Fred M. Schwarzer and Dr. Nelson Teng. Collectively, they have more than 70 years of experience creating and nurturing early stage life sciences companies, and they have worked together for over 15 years to build successful life sciences companies.

The managing partners bring together a unique combination of medical, scientific, operational, venture capital, financial and legal experience. Two of the managing partners, Dr. Harrison and Dr. Teng, bring a level of experience and clinical and scientific knowledge in cardiology and cancer that is matched by few venture capital general partners. Mr. Dolan was one of the pioneer life sciences venture capital investors, and he brings twenty years of active life sciences investing experience to the Fund. Mr. Schwarzer brings extensive operational, finance and legal skills to the Fund.

The investment professionals at CLS have complementary skills which are well matched to our portfolio companies’ stage of investment and investment strategy, and the skill sets of the CLS team are particularly valuable to our portfolio companies as they progress through product development and clinical trials to liquidity.