Jørgen Søberg Petersen spent the first 9 years of his career in clinical and academic medicine in Denmark and in the United States. During his 20 years tenure in the pharmaceutical industry, Jørgen served in executive R&D roles at Lundbeck, Merck, and Novo Nordisk. Jørgen was co-founder of Zealand Pharma, and as CSO he played a key role in building this company to exit. Along his assignments in big pharma, Jørgen has been closely involved in multiple alliances between biotech and pharma and he has served on the board of multiple successful biotech companies. Jørgen joined Novo Holdings in 2017 where he currently serves as Senior Partner.

Nik Economopoulos, MBBS, MBA, serves as Analyst at Alpha Wave Global LP with a focus on private biotech and medtech financings. Nik has over 8 years experience in business development, corporate strategy, M&A and investing in the biopharma sector. Prior to joining Alpha Wave, Nik was part of the Venture Investments team at Novo Holdings and a consultant at L.E.K. Consulting. Nik holds a medical degree from University College London and an MBA from London Business School.

Dr. Shannon is a General Partner at Canaan Partners, which he joined in 2009. He has made investments in and serves or has served on the private and public boards of several Canaan portfolio companies.
Previously, Dr. Shannon was President and Chief Executive Officer of CuraGen, a public biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology. He also held positions of increasing responsibility for Bayer’s Pharmaceutical Business Group, including Senior Vice President of Global Medical Development. Prior to his career in industry, he was an Assistant Professor in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. Shannon received his B.A. in Chemistry from Amherst College, his medical degree from the University of Connecticut, and completed his postgraduate medical training in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital of Harvard Medical School and Boston University, respectively.

Ben Thorner serves as General Counsel & Chief Business Officer of Eikon Therapeutics, and as such oversees all legal matters and dealmaking for the Company.
Prior to assuming this position, Ben served as Senior Vice President and Head of BD&L for Merck Research Laboratories. In that role, Ben supervised all dealmaking activities that contributed to the pipeline, which included discovery, technologies, preclinical and clinical stage deals as well as the MRL Ventures Fund.
Ben went to Merck from Novartis, where he served as Head of Transactions, Strategic Alliances at NIBR. In that role, he led a team of deal negotiators responsible for pre-PoC deals for Novartis’ therapeutics pipeline. Prior to Novartis, Ben held positions of increasing responsibility with Amgen in their legal and licensing organizations.
Prior to his industry career, Ben worked in private law practice providing counsel on strategic intellectual property issues, licensing agreements, strategic alliances, and other corporate transactions, with a focus on biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients. In addition, he served as clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He holds a J.D. and M.A. (Biology) from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. from George Mason University. Ben previously served on the Board of the California Life Sciences Association and was granted membership in the following Bar Associations: New York, Colorado and Virginia and currently is Registered In House Counsel in California.