Impact of genomics on business & society.

Highlights

Juan Enriquez, author, businessman and academic, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on emerging (and disruptive) medical technologies—how extraordinary advances in life sciences are changing the way we live and do business.

Juan also has an important message for political and business leaders about how to compete effectively in the world's knowledge economy as the digital and genomic revolutions create the wealth of the future.

Juan is the author of

the global bestseller, As the Future Catches You—an analysis of the impact of genomics on business and society; and

The Untied States of America, which explores why, as technology advances, some countries are successful while others disappear.

Energetic and articulate, Juan is a fine speaker with invaluable insight into which advances in the life sciences will matter to your firm and industry—and why—and how to turn the life science revolution to your advantage.

As a venture capitalist, he has partnered in the launch of multiple breakthrough startups that have provided significant gains to his investors.

Fast Company named Juan one of their Fast 50 for 2005. He holds BA and MBA degrees from Harvard University, with honors.

Credentials

An active investor in early-stage private companies in the life sciences sectors, Juan is a managing director of Excel Venture Management. He also is the founder, chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy, a life sciences research and investment firm. In July of 2005, he co-founded Synthetic Genomics, Inc., a synthetic biology company and serves on its board.

Juan was the founding director of Harvard Business School's Life Science Project.

Juan was part of a world discovery voyage led by Craig Venter, who sequenced the human genome. The multi-stage sailing voyage sampled microbial genomes throughout the world’s oceans.

He has published several key articles, including a winner of the McKinsey Prize. he coauthored the first map of global nucleotide data flow. Harvard Business Review showcased his ideas as one of the breakthrough concepts in its first HBR list.

Fortune profiled him as Mr. Gene. Time asked him to co-organize the life sciences summit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA. Seed picked his ideas as one of 50 that "shaped our identity, our culture and the world as we know it."

Juan was CEO of Mexico City's Urban Development Corp., coordinator of economic policy and chief of staff for Mexico's secretary of state, and was a member of the peace commission that negotiated the cease-fire in Chiapas' Zapatista rebellion.

The revolution

As of 1995, we began to read the full gene sequence of . . .
Bacteria, insects, plants, animals, humans.
It is written in a four-letter code (A, T, C, G) . . .
If you change this code, just as if you change the code in a floppy disk or on a CD . . .
You change the message, the product, the outcome.

We are beginning to acquire
direct and deliberate control
over the evolution of all life forms
on the planet . . .

including ourselves.

Books

As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are changing Your Life, Work, and Health & Wealth

The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future

Boards

• Cabot Corporation
• Harvard Medical School Genetics Advisory Council
• Synthetic Genomics, Inc.
• The Visiting Committee of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center

Government—Prior Positions

• CEO, Mexico City’s Urban Development Corp
• Coordinator General of Economic Policy
• Chief of Staff, Mexico’s Secretary of State
• Member of the Peace Commission that negotiated the cease-fire in Chiapas’ Zapatista rebellion