Naarden, The Netherlands, 18 May 2021 – Forbion, a leading European life sciences venture capital firm, is pleased to announce that Jasper Bos, PhD, a former Merck executive, has joined its growing investment team as General Partner for the firm’s Growth Fund. Before joining Forbion’s Naarden-based headquarters, Jasper was Senior Vice President and Managing Director at M Ventures, the venture arm of pharmaceutical giant Merck, which he joined in 2009. At M Ventures, he led a team of twenty-one investment professionals and with a fund size of €400 million invested in over 50 portfolio companies spanning biotech, life sciences tools, and tech companies with investment activities ranging from seed-stage to cross-over and IPO.
In light of the recent, sizable final close, at the EUR 360 million hard cap of our Forbion Growth Opportunities Fund I, we are pleased to have a seasoned life sciences investment professional like Jasper joining our growing team. Jasper has overseen four companies through their IPO process, and has vast experience with pharma spin-outs and prominent licensing deals involving diverse stakeholders from big-pharma to leading academic institutions. His scientific and financial experience will be instrumental as we continue implementing our strategy which is to enable the most innovative companies bring new impactful treatments and therapies to market.
Sander Slootweg
Managing Partner at Forbion
I am excited to be joining Forbion, in my view one of the leading investment firms in the life sciences space, and to actively contribute to deploying their Growth Opportunities Fund and thus help to grow the market for late-stage European biotech investing in Europe. I look forward to working with the Forbion team, and I am confident that my track record in the industry will be complementary to theirs, especially when it comes to creating pharma spin outs.
Jasper Bos
Commenting on his appointment as General Partner
Previously, Jasper has worked at the Netherlands Vaccine Institute, the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and in private equity. He holds a PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
