Jeanne Bolger has served as the Vice President, Venture Investments at Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) since 2013. Jeanne’s responsibilities are focused on investing in and managing portfolio investments in start-up and early stage life science companies in areas of strategic interest to J&J’s business sectors in Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology, Medical Devices and Consumer. She represents or has represented JJDC on the Board of Directors of over a dozen companies, including Aelix Therapeutics, Asceneuron SA, Aviado Bio, Biocartis, Calypso Biotech, Caelus Health, Dreem, Inivata, Merus, Pulmocide, S-Biomedic, Syndesi, Topivert and TRexBio. She has also represented J&J / JJDC’s LP position in multiple VC Funds and other financing vehicles.
Jeanne has nearly 35 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in management roles across R&D, Commercial and Business Development. She spent 11 years in Licensing and Acquisition, most recently as Global Head of Scientific Licensing for Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceutical business, having joined the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies in 2005 from the Business Development group at GSK.
Jeanne received her medical degree from University College Dublin. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland. She has served as the sole pharmaceutical industry representative on two Irish government taskforces seeking to enhance the commercialization of IP from Irish academic centres and is on the industry advisory board of CURAM. She is a visiting lecturer on the MSc Pharmaceutical Medicine curriculum at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.