Rod Ferguson
Board Member
Dr. Rod Ferguson was a co-founder and Managing Director of Panorama Capital, a venture
capital firm which spun off from JPMorgan Partners in July 2006, where he focused
on life sciences investments. He joined JPMP as a Managing Director in their life sciences
venture practice in 2001. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Ferguson was a partner at InterWest
Partners, a venture capital firm, where he focused on life sciences investments. Prior to
InterWest, he held a variety of management positions over an 11-year career at Genentech,
Inc., most recently as Senior Director of Business and Corporate Development responsible
for worldwide licensing transactions for both technology and pharmaceutical products. Prior
to joining Genentech, Inc. in 1988, Dr. Ferguson was an associate with the San Francisco
law firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen.
Dr. Ferguson received a B.S. with honors in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois in
1977, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1981,
and a J.D. cum laude from Northwestern University in 1984. Dr. Ferguson serves on several
non-profit boards.