San Francisco Bay Area United States
Managing Director, DEFTA Partners
Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals
Executive in the biotech/regenerative medicine sector. Strategic and action oriented.
Elona Baum is a Managing Director of DEFTA Partners and heads the investment function for its healthcare technologies fund. The fund focuses on early stage investments in innovative therapeutic and digital health technologies. Ms. Baum’s career spans more than 20 years in the drug development sector, initially at Genentech and then at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). She has held leadership roles in business development, legal and regulatory. In this capacity she oversaw $1 billion of investment in regenerative medicine research and clinical programs, the creation of a $4...