Human Capital: The Leadership Difference
Health2047 Capital Partners has assembled a multi-discplinary team with significant accomplishments in company formation, healthcare, technology, and investing. Our managing partners have deep expertise in underwriting and managing investments across investment cycles and asset classes. And the company's connections to Health2047 Inc. and the AMA provide unmatched situational awareness and expertise.
Douglass Given MD, PhD
Managing Partner
Doug is Managing Partner at Health2047 Capital Partners LLC 2018-present. He served as Health2047 Inc.'s Chief Executive from its founding in 2015 until 2018. Doug has spent more than two decades in venture capital as an investment Partner and General Partner at life sciences investor Bay City Capital LLC participating in five sequential life sciences general funds and two sector-specific funds; he was associated with the partnership from 1999-2015. Doug is a physician and medical scientist. Beginning in 1983, he has been a global corporate and operating executive at Lilly, Monsanto, Schering Plough and Mallinckrodt and a serial entrepreneur. In addition to a number of private companies, he led three public biopharmaceutical companies as CEO.
Doug has served on more than 20 public and private boards. He is currently a Director at Health2047 Inc, Board Chair at Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARWR), Managing Partner at G5 Partners LLC, and serves on the board at First Mile Care Inc, BrYet Health Ltd, Visirna Therapeutics, and Vivaldi Biosciences Inc. He serves in advisory roles on the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and Biological Sciences Division Council (former Chair), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health Advisory Board.
Doug received MD and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and was a Clinical and Research Fellow in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Rich Langdale
Partner
Rich Langdale is a Partner at Health2047 Capital Partners. Previously, he founded and served for 15 years as Managing Director of NCT Ventures, a firm focused on early-stage technology companies disrupting major industries in underserved markets. While NCT’s portfolio companies span multiple industries, healthcare has been a core focus area, with six investments over the last five years. A natural entrepreneur and operational leader, Rich founded his first company, Digital Storage, as a college junior; it went on to become the world's largest wholesaler of removable computer storage. After exiting Digital Storage, Rich raised hundreds of millions of dollars to start/scale eight more technology companies. All eight had successful exits.
Rich is an active supporter of entrepreneurship and inclusive economic development. He founded and developed the Center for Entrepreneurship at The Ohio State University, served on the executive board of The Columbus Chamber of Commerce (where he chaired the Entrepreneurship Steering Committee), served on the board of the Columbus Museum of Art, was on the Core Committee for the Columbus Partnership (when designing Columbus 2020), served on Nationwide Children’s Hospital research board, and helped form Venture Ohio as well as the InnovateOhio program. Additionally, Rich is currently an active board director of six early-growth technology companies.
He studied physics at The Ohio State University, where he later taught undergraduate, graduate, and executive education courses. A lifelong learner, Rich continuously expands both his skill set and his domain expertise through programs available from the Young President Organization (YPO), Harvard's Executive Education program and a wide variety of industry programs.
Gary Cookhorn
Partner
Gary Cookhorn is a Partner at Health2047 Capital Partners. His career spans finance, strategy, and operations in both the private and public sector. Before joining Health2047 Capital Partners, Gary was a managing director in the San Francisco office of Fortress Investment Group, a highly diversified global investment management firm. At Fortress, he helped establish Pantera Capital, a blockchain-related investment firm, and a new office in southeast Asia. He has served as CFO of Guidance Financial Group, a private equity firm, and as Chief of Staff to the COO of UBS Investment Bank in London and Zurich focusing on new business initiatives.
Earlier in his career, Gary worked at the headquarters of the United Nations Development Programme in New York as a divisional CFO. He later headed the World Bank’s Loan Services Group in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for financial operations relating to the World Bank’s loan portfolio. He was instrumental in establishing a major support center for the bank in Chennai, India.
Gary holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of London. He is a UK-qualified Chartered Accountant and sits on a variety of non-profit boards in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ray Bingham
Partner
Ray Bingham is a Partner at Health2047 Capital Partners. He is also a Board Director at Health2047 Inc. as well as a co-founder and Founding Partner at Canyon Bridge Capital Partners Inc. His distinguished career spans over 35 years, working with businesses in high tech, chemical engineering and hospitality real estate development. Ray’s rich background in these areas includes accomplishments in mergers and acquisitions, global trade and venture capital.
Previously, he served as a strategic advisor at EPIC Ventures, where he led investment activities in the communications and electronics sector. Ray also led investment activities at General Atlantic, serving as the company’s Managing Director from 2005-2009 and co-heading the company’s Palo Alto office. Prior to that, Ray was a Board Director with numerous tech companies, including Oracle, Cypress Semiconductor, Freescale Semiconductor, and Onyx Software.
He earned a BS in Economics from Weber State University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Weber State University.