Silicon Valley Greek BioHub | Meet-up #4 | South San Francisco
Join us for the first meetup of the year on January, Thursday the 29th in South San Francisco at Kardigan!
High level agenda:
👋🏼 Welcome from Grigoris Tassiopoulos, Consul General of Greece in San Francisco and SVGB co-founder Nikos Kyrpides. Brief introductions and overview of SVGB’s mission to strengthen the Greek biotech diaspora and foster cross-border collaboration.
🔥 Fireside chat with serial biotech entrepreneur Tassos Gianakakos, hosted by our very own Maria Mirotsou. Tassos Gianakakos is a driven executive and entrepreneur with a passion for taking on the world’s most challenging health problems. He’s a values-based leader who has built and developed extraordinary teams to improve health outcomes for society. He has more than 20 years of deep industry experience and a proven record of successfully building innovative, science-based companies in the biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to Kardigan, Tassos served as chief executive officer of cardiovascular drug development company MyoKardia, which was acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb for $13.1 billion in 2020. He also co-founded cardiovascular technology and connected care company Prolaio, where he currently holds the role of chair and chief executive officer. Since starting his career in vaccine development at Merck & Co. more than two decades ago, Tassos has played an instrumental role in the start up of multiple biotechnology companies focused on creating game-changing therapies. Tassos earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a graduate degree in biotechnology at Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
👋🏼 Mentorship program roll out and closing remarks from Fay Christodoulou.
🍹 Mixer in 🇬🇷 style. Vasilopita for this 1st event of the year!