Kelly Holman

Mr. Holman is co-Founder and Managing Director of Genesys Capital and has extensive commercial and technical experience in the biotechnology industry. Since co-founding Genesys Capital in 2000, Mr. Holman has been actively involved in raising over $400 million of venture capital and has been instrumental in deploying capital across 41 investments. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Adapsyn Bioscience Inc., Functional Neuromodulation Ltd., IDbyDNA Inc. (observer), and Questat Inc. From 2012-2015, he was a board observer with Invitae (NYSE: NVTA). Previously, Mr. Holman served on the board of Epocal (acquired by Alere, now Abbot Labs) and was an observer on the boards of Invitae (NYSE IPO; acquired by LabCorp) and IDbyDNA (acquired by Illumina). 

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Prior to co-founding Genesys Capital, Mr. Holman was a Senior Investment Manager with MDS Capital Corporation. Previously, Mr. Holman worked in the laboratory of Dr. Peter St George-Hyslop at the University of Toronto where he was a key member of the international research team that discovered several genes responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Holman holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Biochemistry and an MBA, both from Queen’s University.