Sean X. Hu, PhD, MBA

CEO

Former CEO of Avotres Inc.; Former Sr. VP and Head of Healthcare Consulting at GlobalData PLC

Dr. Hu brings over 25 years of broad experience in life science industries, primarily in building and growing business, developing strategies for drug and diagnostics product development and commercialization, and, the scouting, evaluation & valuation of drug assets.

Prior to Rapafusyn, Dr. Hu built and ran several companies in the US, including, for example, Avotres Inc., a clinical stage biopharma company developing autoimmune disease and cancer therapies targeting regulatory T cells. Earlier, during his ~14-year management consulting tenure advising life science industries, Dr. Hu advanced through the consulting career ladder, starting with AT Kearney and IMS Consulting, later building and growing consulting business at Bionest USA, BioStrat Advisory LLC and GlobalData PLC as managing partner and/or head of consulting, and leaving the consulting industry as the head of healthcare consulting business in the Americas for GlobalData, a publicly listed global company headquartered in London.

Dr. Hu also brings hands on operating experience from BMS, a major pharma, and biotech companies including CuraGen, a first-generation genomics company, and Illumina, a major success story in recent biotech history.

Dr. Hu holds a PhD in Genomics from NYU, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business double-majored in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management.