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OUR TEAM

The Borealis team represents a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. With deep scientific, clinical, business development, corporate, legal, and early stage experience we seek to provide our teams the support they need to build stellar companies.

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Phil Ferneau

Partner

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Ben Shaw

Partner

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Julia Stephanus

Partner

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Emily Snyder

Principal

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Chris Lites

Venture Fellow

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Peter Bertone

Venture Fellow

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Dave Whitehead 

Venture Consultant

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Ernie Tao

Venture Fellow

“One of the biggest challenges any CEO faces is anticipating what lies around the next bend in the journey. Phil’s experience alongside a decade’s worth of early life sciences entrepreneurs and frequent hands-on mentoring has proven invaluable to Avitide as we’ve charted our course.”

Kevin Isett, CEO and Founder of Avitide

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