Simon Barnes
Simon Barnes
Overview
Simon Barnes has a background in life sciences venture capital first with the London office of Atlas Venture and subsequently with GIMV Venture Capital. He has focused on investing in early stage life sciences ventures throughout his career. He currently serves as a director of Evolve Biosystems Inc. (USA).Simon was trained as a scientist and has a first class honours degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Plant Biochemistry from The University of Cambridge. He spent two years as a NATO Research Fellow at The Rockefeller University in New York before becoming Head of The Laboratory of Cotton Biotechnology in Singapore. He holds an MBA with Distinction from Imperial College Business School later joining the faculty and becoming Director of Imperial's Entrepreneurship Centre where he co authored 'Raising Venture Capital' (Wiley 2006).
