Dr Jeannie Joughin
Venture Partner
| BSc(Hons), PhD | Location: Melbourne, AU
Jeannie is an experienced biopharmaceutical and medical device leader with 20+ years’ experience locally and internationally. She is responsible for sourcing and supporting biotech, device and diagnostics companies to achieve future success. Having held senior executive level positions globally, she brings extensive expertise in business development transactions, strategic partnerships and alliance management to support investment strategy. Her operational and leadership experience in research, clinical trial and commercial management has been forged through conducting research at universities, holding positions of increasing seniority in multi-national pharmaceutical companies and from start-up environments in private and listed companies located in the USA, Europe and Australia.
Prior to OneVentures, Jeannie held senior executive and advisor positions in Australia and currently serves as a director for Paranta Biosciences. While in the US she was responsible for global business development activities and successfully licensed a medical device technology to several of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies attracting sizable milestone and royalty payments. She has demonstrated commercial success and operational expertise by building businesses and brands in several therapeutic areas in different geographies. She has a global perspective with strong analytical, regulatory and technical skills, and is passionate about working with and developing teams to support execution of corporate, product and business strategy. This experience has come from working in companies in Australia and the USA including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mayne Pharma, CSL and CSL Behring, Enable Injections Inc., Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals, Glutagen and Paranta Biosciences.
Dr Joughin holds a PhD and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Immunology from Monash University in Melbourne and a Diploma of Marketing from the Melbourne Business School.