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John McManus and the Business of Being Ready
For more than 15 years, the biotechnology executive has worked where drug development meets public preparedness - a patient business built around threats everyone hopes will remain hypothetical.
Han Lim
Han Lim is the Chief Business Officer of DeepCure, a Boston-based company building an end-to-end automated platform for small molecule drug discovery that pairs AI with a virtual library of a quintillion synthesizable compounds, robotic synthesis, and automated assays. A physician-scientist by training, he holds a medical degree from the University of Queensland, a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and did postdoctoral physics research at MIT before spending roughly a decade on the UC Berkeley faculty running a lab in systems biology and bioengineering. He helped build the first generation of AI drug discovery companies as Chief Business Officer at Atomwise, where he launched the internal pipeline, raised $168M across two rounds, and signed partners including Eli Lilly and Charles River Laboratories. He now leads business development, portfolio planning, and corporate strategy at DeepCure.
Richard Law
Richard Law is the Chief Business Officer of HAYA Therapeutics, the Lausanne- and San Diego-based biotech decoding the 'dark genome' to build RNA-guided medicines that reprogram disease-driving cell states. A computational chemist turned dealmaker with a Oxford PhD in molecular biophysics and an Imperial MBA, he spent over a decade at Evotec, then steered Exscientia through its 2021 Nasdaq IPO, marquee pharma partnerships, and 2024 merger with Recursion before joining HAYA in March 2025 to drive its partnering strategy and growth.