FSAC

Withdrawn

Foresite Life Sciences Corp.

Underwriter: Jefferies
Raised
$250M
CIK
1843668
SPAC Ticker
FSAC
Focus
Healthcare, Life Sciences, Biotech
External link: SEC Filings

SPAC Team

Leadership

Jim Tananbaum has been our President, Chief Executive Officer and a director since January 2021. Dr. Tananbaum is also the chief executive officer of Foresite Capital, a U.S.-focused healthcare investment firm, which he founded in 2011. Dr. Tananbaum also serves as a director of Gemini Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: GMTX) (formerly FS Development Corp., a blank check company sponsored by an affiliate of Foresite Capital), since June 2020. He previously served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of FS Development Corp. (now Gemini Therapeutics, Inc., Nasdaq: GMTX) from June 2020 until its merger with Gemini in February 2021, and since August 2020 he also served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of FS Development Corp. II (Nasdaq: FSII) Prior to founding Foresite Capital, Dr. Tananbaum served as Co-Founder and Managing Director of Prospect Venture Partners L.P. II and III, healthcare venture partnerships, from 2000 to 2010. Dr. Tananbaum was also the Founder of GelTex, Inc. in 1991, an intestinal medicine pharmaceutical company acquired by Sanofi-Genzyme, and Theravance, Inc. in 1997 (now Theravance Biopharma, Inc., a diversified biopharmaceutical company focused on organ-selective medicines, and Innoviva, Inc., a respiratory-focused healthcare asset management company partnered with Glaxo Group Limited). Dr. Tananbaum received a B.S. and a B.S.E.E. from Yale University in Applied Math and Computer Science, and an M.D. and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Dr. Tananbaum’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his scientific, financial and strategic business development expertise gained as a physician, founder of two life science companies and venture capital investor focused on life science companies.

Dennis Ryan has been our Chief Financial Officer since January 2021. Since 2011, Mr. Ryan has also led the Operations Group at Foresite Capital as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director, and is also the Chief Financial Officer of FS Development Corp. II (Nasdaq: FSII), since August 2020. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer of FS Development Corp. (now Gemini Therapeutics, Inc., Nasdaq: GMTX) from June 2020 until its merger with Gemini in February 2021. He currently serves as Board President of Whistlestop, a non-profit providing transportation and nutrition services to seniors. He received a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley in Economics, and an M.B.A from the University of Santa Clara. Mr. Ryan is a licensed certified public accountant in California.

Michael Rome has been our Vice President since January 2021. Dr. Rome also serves as Managing Director at Foresite Capital, where he has held various roles since 2016, and as Vice President and a director of FS Development Corp. II (Nasdaq: FSII), since August 2020. He previously served as Vice President and a director of FS Development Corp. (now Gemini Therapeutics, Inc., Nasdaq: GMTX) from June 2020 until its merger with Gemini in February 2021. From September 2015 to July 2016, he was an Analyst at DAFNA Capital Management, a healthcare hedge fund, where he covered and formulated investment ideas for small/mid-cap biotech companies. Prior to joining DAFNA Capital Management, Dr. Rome worked in early-stage drug development as a Senior Scientist for Vault Pharma, an academic start-up out of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA from April 2014 to September 2015. In the past five years, Dr. Rome held a board observer role at Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage precision oncology company. Dr. Rome received a B.S. from UCLA in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Caltech. Dr. Rome’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his substantial experience as a research scientist and depth of knowledge of the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals research and development process, as well as his experience investing across diverse therapeutic areas.

Vikram Bajaj has been a director on our board of directors since February 2021. Dr. Bajaj currently serves as a Managing Director at Foresite Capital, since September 2017 and as Chief Executive Officer of Foresite Labs, a healthcare and data science incubator, since October 2019. He is also an Associate Professor of Radiology (Consulting) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, since 2014, and an Affiliate Scientist of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, since 2011. Prior to joining Foresite Capital, Dr. Bajaj was the Chief Scientific Officer of GRAIL, Inc., a life sciences company developing a multi-cancer early detection test, from September 2016 to September 2017. From April 2013 to September 2016, Dr. Bajaj was the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), a research organization devoted to the study of life sciences, and served as Chair of its Scientific Advisory Board from September 2016 to September 2017. He is currently a Senior Adviser to FS Development Corp. II (Nasdaq: FSII) and is on the advisory board of UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry. Dr. Bajaj holds a B.A./M.S. from University of Pennsylvania in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Physical Chemistry. Dr. Bajaj’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include his breadth of scientific and engineering expertise and his network of contacts in the life sciences sector.

Alisa Mall has been a director since January 2021. Ms. Mall is Managing Director at Foresite Capital, responsible for corporate development, long-term capital strategy, investor relations and environmental, social and governance engagement. Prior to joining Foresite Capital, from 2011 to November 2020, Ms. Mall served as Managing Director of Investments at Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic foundation supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement and international peace, and as Associate Director of Investments for Carnegie Corporation from 2009 to 2011. Ms. Mall has also been serving as director of FS Development Corp. II (Nasdaq: FSII) since February 2021. Previously, she was Director, Equity Capital Markets at Tishman Speyer Properties, a commercial real estate company, from 2007 to 2009, and an attorney with global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP from 2004 to 2007. Ms. Mall is a member of the board of directors and governance committee of JBG Smith (NYSE: JBGS), a real estate investment trust. She also serves on the boards of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), Breakthrough New York and the Bronfman Fellowship, and is a member of the investment committee of UJA-Federation of New York and the advisory board of Declaration Partners, a family office. Ms. Mall received a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. in Political Science from Yale College. Ms. Mall’s qualifications to serve on our board of directors include her significant investment and advisory expertise.