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Type: Corporate profile / investment team bio / house oversight document
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This document (page 13, Control Number 257) contains professional biographies for James Niedel and Liam Ratcliffe, executives at New Leaf Venture Partners. It details their educational backgrounds, board memberships, and extensive history in the pharmaceutical industry (GSK and Pfizer respectively), including specific successful drug developments and corporate acquisitions. The document is marked confidential and bears a House Oversight file stamp.

People (2)

Name Role Context
James Niedel Venture Partner
Joined Sprout in 2002, helped found New Leaf in 2005. Former executive at GlaxoSmithKline.
Liam Ratcliffe Managing Director
Joined New Leaf in 2008. Former executive at Pfizer.

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2005
Founding of New Leaf
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May 2002
James Niedel joined Sprout
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September 2008
Liam Ratcliffe joined New Leaf
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James Niedel Colleagues Liam Ratcliffe
Both are senior members (Venture Partner and Managing Director) at New Leaf.

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James Niedel, MD, Ph.D., (70), Venture Partner, joined Sprout in May 2002 and helped found New Leaf in 2005. Jim will change his status to Venture Partner in NLV-III with the closing of the new fund. In this role, Jim will work full-time as a senior member of the NLV investment team working on new investments, and he will continue with full oversight and portfolio management responsibilities for NLV-I and NLV-II. Jim is currently on the boards of directors of Chimerix (NASDAQ: CMRX, former Chairman) and Tioga. He was previously on the boards of Intarcia Therapuetics (now currently a Board observer), Sirna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RNAI, acquired by Merck in 2006 for $1.1 billion), where he served as Chairman; Oriel Therapeutics (acquired by Novartis in 2010), where he served as Executive Chairman, and Pearl Therapeutics (acquired by AstraZeneca in 2012). Prior to joining Sprout, Jim was Chief Science and Technology Officer for GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK"). From 1995 to 2001, he led Global Research and Development, Information Technology and Product Strategy and was a member of the board of directors of Glaxo Wellcome plc. From 1988 to 1995 Jim was Vice President, Research and Senior Vice-President R & D for the U.S. subsidiary of Glaxo. During his nearly 13 years with the Company, he oversaw the discovery, development and/or registration of over 20 products marketed by GSK, including those for: HIV, hepatitis B, asthma/COPD, migraine, BPH, irritable bowel syndrome, smoking cessation, depression, chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, breast cancer, herpes and malaria. Prior to GSK, Jim was Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Principal Investigator on studies of mechanisms of cancer and inflammation at Duke Medical School, where he had completed an Internal Medicine residency and a Hematology-Medical Oncology fellowship. Jim received his M.D. and Ph.D. (Biochemistry) degrees from the University of Miami, was selected a Searle Scholar and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London).
Liam Ratcliffe, MD, Ph.D., (50), Managing Director, joined New Leaf in September 2008 and concentrates on biopharmaceutical investing. He is currently on the boards of directors of Array BioPharma (NASDAQ: ARRY), Neuronetics, Karus Therapeutics, Afferent, Calchan and Convergence, the latter three investments resulting from spin-outs from Roche (Afferent) and GSK (Calchan & Convergence), respectively. Prior to joining New Leaf, Liam previously served as Senior Vice President and Development Head for Pfizer Neuroscience, as well as Worldwide Head of Clinical Research and Development. Additional positions during his 12 years at Pfizer included Vice President of Exploratory Development for the Mid West region, and Head of Experimental Medicine at Pfizer's Sandwich, UK Laboratories. As Head of Neurosciences, Liam was responsible for the development of several successful late-stage projects and marketed products, including Lyrica, Chantix and Geodon. In previous roles, he gained extensive experience in early drug development and translational research across multiple therapeutic areas, including inflammation, pain, cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases and genitor-urinary medicine. Liam began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in a medical marketing role at Roche in South Africa. He received his M.D. degree and Ph.D. degree in immunology from the University of Cape Town and his M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan. Liam completed his internal medicine training and fellowship in Immunology at Groote Schuur Hospital and associated teaching hospitals in Cape Town, South Africa.
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