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William Crouse Non-executive Director William (Bill) Crouse is Managing Director and a General Partner of HealthCare Ventures, one of the world’s largest venture capital firms specializing in biotechnology. HealthCare Ventures creates, finances, manages and builds high science biopharmaceutical companies. The company has led the strategic development and management of more than 90 companies with a combined market capitalization of greater than $50 billion in important and emerging fields such as genetic therapy, genomic sciences, and organ and cellular transplantation. Mr Crouse maintains extensive contacts with major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and has assisted HealthCare Venture’s portfolio companies in initiating and negotiating collaborative agreements which have resulted in more than $3 billion of funding to those companies. He has over forty years of experience in the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry in general management, international operations, strategic planning, licensing, acquisitions, new product development, and sales and marketing. Prior to joining HealthCare Ventures, he was Worldwide President of Ortho Diagnostic Systems and a Vice President of Johnson & Johnson International from 1987 to 1993. | 