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Phyllis Whiteley, PhD., is a Venture Partner with Wildcat Venture Partners where she provides hands-on leadership in building, investing, and creating companies in the digital health space. Phyllis’ career is founded on her passion for personalized medicine, global healthcare, and transformative life science innovations. She has founded and built multiple companies in the United States and abroad. Her executive expertise includes strategic planning, financing, partnerships, restructuring, building executive teams and M&A. Prior to joining Wildcat Venture Partners and Mohr Davidow Ventures, Phyllis was an Officer and Senior Vice President, Business Development, Licensing, and Alliance Management at Perlegen Sciences, Inc. Before joining Perlegen, she served as Vice President, Strategic Portfolio Management for Roche. Over her ten-year career with Roche she held various positions in Business Development based in Basel, Switzerland coupled with R&D leadership positions in the US. Phylli
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- • 8 investors at Playground Global are tracked.
- • 421 investors hold the Venture Partner role in VCSift. Phyllis Whiteley is one of them.
- • 206 investors are based in San Mateo, California, United States.
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- San Mateo, US
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