Steven Everett is a biotechnology executive and cancer scientist who founded MaveriX Oncology in Palo Alto, California, where he serves as President and CEO. With a background rooted in more than two decades of cancer research at the University of Oxford, University of Dundee and UCSF, he has built his career around a single idea: making cancer drugs that switch on only inside tumors. At MaveriX he is developing conditionally activated small-molecule therapeutics that exploit hydroxylase biology in the tumor immune microenvironment, aiming to hit cancer hard while sparing healthy tissue.
Kimberly Nearing is the Chief Business Officer of MaveriX Oncology, a Palo Alto biotech building tumor-selective small molecule drug conjugates. She is a Venture Partner at BVCF (Bioveda China Fund) and spent over a decade as Managing Director and Head of Life Sciences at the Hong Kong-based Cedrus Group, building bridges for capital and deals between the U.S., Europe, and Greater China. With early operating years at Amgen, Merck, and IBM Healthcare and a master's from Harvard, she pairs deep biotech operating experience with the relationships that move money across the Pacific.