Nola Masterson

Fund(s): FemTech Fund
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Nola Elizabeth Masterson, MSc. is a biotechnology industry leader and forward thinker with more than 45 years of business experience in the life sciences industry and in venture capital investments. She founded Science Futures Management Co LLC in 1983. Masterson was the first biotech analyst on Wall Street working for Drexel Burnham Lambert and Merrill Lynch. She has served as a consultant at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Oak Investments and IVP to create companies such as IDEC, Resound, and InSite Vision. She is the co- founder and first CEO of Sequenom, Inc. (SQNM), which pioneered the use of mass spectrometry to get the mass weight of DNA, She has served on the Board of Directors at Omicia, Inc. now called Fabric Genomics. She served as a member of the Board and then Chairman of Repros Therapeutics Inc. (RPRX) until its sale to Allergan.

 Ms. Masterson started her own venture fund in 1998, as a fund of fund into TVM Medical Ventures. She served as an advisor at TVM Capital GmbH and a Venture Partner from 2000 to 2005. She opened the San Francisco office of TVM and was part of their fifth fund raise. She serves as a Member of Global Advisory Board and is a Mentor at Astia, Inc. She is on the board of directors of Lynx Biosciences in San Diego and is on the Board of Directors of Zivo BioSciences (ZIVO) and Pacylex Bioscience She is the co-chair of the Northern California chapter of the Women Corporate Directors. The American College of Corporate Directors awarded her the Advanced Professional Director Certificate.

She is an experienced global executive having worked at Millipore for 8 years and Ames Company, a diagnostic division of Bayer. She serves on the board for the American Diabetes Association. She is a graduate of the Stanford Law School Board of Directors College course. She received a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Marymount College, a Medical Technology (ASCP) certification and a M.Sc. in Biological Sciences from George Washington University and completed Ph.D. course work in Molecular Biology at the University of Florida, where she taught in the Environmental Engineering Department.