Event Panel Schedule
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Keynote by Ben Thorpe - Head of Healthcare Banking Europe - Goldman Sachs
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Ben Thorpe , Head of European Healthcare Investment Banking / Goldman Sachs & Co.
Ben is a Partner managing director in the Healthcare Investment Banking Team, which he joined in 1999. He has a degree form University of Durham.


Jennifer Porcelli , Managing Director / Solebury Trout
Jennifer Porcelli joined the Trout Group in March of 2015. Prior to joining Trout, Jen worked at UBS Investment Bank on the Corporate Access team, where she spent over 11 years working with companies across the Energy & Utilities, Media…


Elise Wang , Principal / Deerfield Management Company
Elise Wang is a Principal on the Public Structured Finance group at Deerfield and joined the Firm in 2010. Ms. Wang provides extensive research and analysis on individual companies operating in the healthcare industry in both the US and Europe. Prior…


Robert Puopolo , Partner / Goodwin Procter LLP
Rob Puopolo, a partner in Goodwin’s Life Sciences practice, focuses his practice on representing public and privately held life sciences companies, as well as the venture capital firms, hedge funds and investment banks that focus on these companies.


Reinhard Kandera , CFO / Hookipa Pharma
Reinhard Kandera joined Hookipa as CFO in April 2017. Prior to that he was Chief Financial Officer of Valneva. He has been with Intercell since 2001, in charge of leading the company’s Finance and Investor relation functions and processes and was…


Gil Bar-Nahum , Managing Director / Jefferies LLC
Dr. Gil Bar-Nahum is a Managing Director in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group and leads the International Biotechnology effort at Jefferies. Dr. Bar-Nahum has over 17 years of experience and was an Executive Director in UBS Investment…


Jordan Saxe , Head of Healthcare / Nasdaq
Jordan B. Saxe is Senior Managing Director, Americas in the Global Corporate Client Group at Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ), the world’s largest exchange. In this role, Mr. Saxe is responsible for leading business development efforts in listings across all…


Michael H. Bison , Partner / Goodwin Procter LLP
Michael Bison is a partner in Goodwin’s nationally and internationally recognized Technology and Life Sciences practice group and a member of its Life Sciences and Capital Markets practices. He represents privately held and publicly traded companies…


Joseph Oakenfold , Vice President / Deutsche Bank AG
Joe Oakenfold is the lead salesperson for Deutsche Banks‘ Depositary Receipts business in Europe bringing corporate issuers to the US capital markets and enabling access to the worlds’ largest pool of investment.
With over 20 years’ experience, Joe…


Patrick Hughes , Director / Nasdaq
Patrick has over 15 years of experience working with IR teams in various advisory capacities. Prior to joining Nasdaq, he held financial communication roles at Citigate Dewe Rogerson and at Burson-Marsteller.


Jenny Harper , Partner / PricewaterhouseCoopers
I am a Capital Markets & Accounting Advisory partner at PwC with over 20 years of experience on US IPOs, cross-border M&A, and private or public US debt/equity offerings, where I advise companies on transaction readiness, the listing process…