Asish Xavier

VP, Venture Investments at Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc.

Speaker

Asish is the Vice President, Venture Investments at Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) and is based at the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center in San Francisco, California. Asish focuses on investments in biotechnology, diagnostics and digital health. Asish joined JJDC in 2004 and has led or co-led investments in over 30 biotech, diagnostics, digital health and medtech companies.

Asish received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with honors. He received a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Asish was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University.