John Tagliamonte has more than 20 years of experience in executive leadership with responsibility for business development, finance, commercial and business operations, strategic planning, finance and legal functions with established and emerging public and private life sciences companies. As the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence with the MassBio, he was responsible for forward-looking program content across the organization, while helping to develop the next generation of biotech entrepreneurs. He also serves on the business advisory boards of oncology drug startups WntRx and PercpTx. Previously he was Chief Business Officer of rare disease company Oxyrane and held various executive business leadership roles at Anchor Therapeutics, ImmunoGen and Johnson & Johnson, as well as venture investing with Safeguard Scientifics. He began his career as a scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute followed by global business unit management at Bio-Rad. Mr. Tagliamonte received his M.B.A. from Boston College and his B.S. in molecular biology from Tufts University.