Team

Ron Eastman

Senior Advisor
B.A.
Williams College
M.B.A.
Columbia University

Ron Eastman joined EW in 2006 and served as a Managing Director in multiple funds, including Fund 1 and Fund 2, before transitioning to Senior Advisor in 2021.

Mr. Eastman led and previously served on the Board of Directors of EW’s growth equity investment in ProteinSimple (acquired by Bio-Techne), Corium (acquired by Gurnet Point), EyePoint Pharmaceuticals and Elusys Therapeutics (acquired by Heat Biologics). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of EW growth equity portfolio company, Suneva Medical.

Mr. Eastman has over 40 years of experience in building healthcare businesses. He began his career at American Cyanamid Company, which was acquired by American Home Products (now Pfizer), where Mr. Eastman spent 15 years managing various pharmaceutical products, divisions and subsidiaries in the U.S. and overseas. Later as CEO of Geron, Mr. Eastman led the company’s growth from a venture-backed start-up to a publicly traded pioneer in the fields of regenerative medicine and cancer. Most recently, at Rinat Neuroscience, a private biotech company spun out of Genentech with the support of EW in late 2001, Mr. Eastman led the effort to build a company dedicated to discovering and developing large molecule drugs for treating nervous system disorders. Rinat Neuroscience was acquired by Pfizer in 2006.

Mr. Eastman has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University.