Kadir Kadhiresan
Vice President, Venture Investments at Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
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V. Kadir Kadhiresan, PhD, joined Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) in 2007 and focuses on investments in medical devices and digital health. Kadir has more than two decades of operational, investment and business development experience. Based in Boston, Kadir works closely with Johnson & Johnson leadership to identify business needs and has responsibility for sourcing, investing and managing venture investment opportunities. He holds board seats for several JJDC portfolio companies. Some of his investments include Coherex Medical (Acquired by Biosense Webster/JNJ), Spinal Modulation (Acquired by St.Jude/ABT), Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR), Torax Medical (Acquired by Ethicon/JNJ), Neotract (Acquired by Teleflex) and Inspire Medical Systems (NYSE: INSP). Before joining JJDC, Kadir was head of Business Development at Guidant, Inc., now Boston Scientific, Inc., where he led several transactions to access novel medical device technologies.
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- • 4 investors at Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Vice President, Venture Investments role in VCSift. Kadir Kadhiresan is one of them.
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