Juan Enriquez

Juan Enriquez is a leading authority on the economic impact of life sciences and brain research on business and society as well as an entrepreneur. He was the founding Director of the Harvard Business School’s Life Sciences Project and was a research affiliate at MIT’s synthetic neurobiology lab. He then co-founded Excel Venture Management and helped build the world’s first synthetic life form, programable cells, RNA desktop printer, stapled peptides, and portable MRI reader. Each became a listed company. As a business leader and renowned speaker, Juan builds companies and works with the CEOs of a number of Fortune 50 companies, as well as various heads of state, on how to adapt to a world where the dominant language is shifting from the digital towards the language of life.

 

Juan understands what is coming years before it happens. He writes the book then he builds the companies. In 1999, before most understood the word genomics he predicted how life sciences would change the world As The Future Catches You: How Genomics Will Change Your Life, Work, Health, and Wealth (Crown 1999), The United States of America: Polarization, Fracturing and Our Future (Randon House, 2005), Evolving Ourselves: Redesigning Humanity One Gene at a Time (Penguin, 2015). Right/ Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics (MIT, 2020). He is a TED All-Star.

 

Mr. Enriquez serves on multiple for-profit boards including Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) and OpenWater. His firm has sold or IPO’d over a dozen companies. He also serves on a variety of non-profit boards including The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, GBH, Questbridge, Cortico, and Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center. As well as strategic councils at the National Academies of Science and Medicine. He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. and an M.B.A., with honors.