John Flavin

Founder & CEO at Portal Innovations

Speaker

Most recently John served as Chief Financial Officer at Endotronix and helped them secure $70 million to fund their pivotal clinical program. In parallel, he cofounded Pyxis Oncology as founding chairman and helped the team raise a $22 million Series A round to launch its novel immuno-oncology antibody drug platform. Over his career, he has co-founded and scaled several life sciences companies as President and CFO including Advanced Life Sciences and MediChem Life Sciences and has also co-founded and led transformative life sciences incubators including MATTER and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago. John has successfully raised over $345 million of public, private and philanthropic capital including 2 NASDAQ IPOs to fund the development of these impactful organizations.