Mike Bursell
Martin Gershon
Dr. Martin Gershon is the Managing Partner and CIO of Endeavor Life Sciences Venture Funds ($1B AUM) and Venture Studio ($570M AUM). He has been featured on CNBC and in numerous conferences and publications as one of the leading healthcare investors, strategists, futurists and entrepreneurs. Over the past 23 years he raised over $1B, personally founded/exited 6 startups, lead Endeavor Funds to 69 investments, and has served as Senior Strategic Healthcare Advisor for Fortune 500 Companies including McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, Fidelity, TPG, BlackRock, Tiger Global, GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Novartis, Rockefeller Foundation, WHO, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr. Gershon has been honored by Standard and Poor’s as a designated top 100 “Healthcare Industry Leader” and has developed Endeavor into a thriving ecosystem of partnerships with BioPharma, Medtech, Digital Health, and Big Tech companies, world class CEO entrepreneurs, start-up accelerators, and prominent Ivy League universities, medical centers, and business schools like Harvard, Columbia, MIT, NYU, McGill and Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Gershon is committed to helping emerging CEO/Founder Entrepreneurs and serves as a Lead Mentor for Techstars and as a member of the Techstars Start-Up Selection Committee, Executive-in-Residence and Advisor for Matter Health, Mentor for NYU Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship, Selection Committee Advisor for Ben Franklin Technology Partners, Investor for PlugNPlay Tech Center, Advisory Board Member McGill Innovation Fund, and Investor and Advisor for MassChallenge.
Dr. Gershon is a former Aspen Institute Business of Health Chair and Senior Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Mayday Fellow, Harvard and Columbia trained neuroscientist, oncologist, immunologist, FDA attorney, Lecturer and Professor at Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, Oxford, Columbia, Chief of Innovation and Investment at McGill, and a contributing author of healthcare entrepreneurship and finance at Fast Company.
Timothy Wilson
Michael Brown
Kyle Pankey
Kyle Pankey has over two decades of experience working within the healthcare and payer operations, with over 10 years specifically tied in to the payment integrity space. Kyle lives in Chattanooga, TN and has served as Carelon Subrogation’s growth leader since mid-2022.