David J. Pyrce
Larta Fellow & Senior Advisor

David J. Pyrce is a skilled executive with more than 25 years of diverse senior management experience. Mr. Pyrce's background includes investment banking, venture capital, asset management, business development, product development, marketing and sales.

David Pyrce is the Founder and the Managing General Partner of the Jaguar Investment Group, LLC, an investment management firm focused on opportunistic investments. Prior to forming Jaguar, Mr. Pyrce was President of Bear Creek Capital Management, LLC, an investment management firm and Managing General Partner of Bear Creek Capital Partners, LP, a limited partnership investing in public and private equity as well as direct investments. Previously, Mr. Pyrce worked at First Security Van Kasper, a San Francisco investment banking firm, as Managing Director of Investment Banking and General Partner of their venture capital fund. Mr. Pyrce joined the Company as a Vice President and Senior Analyst.

Mr. Pyrce began his professional investment activities while part of the venture capital group of SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. While at SmithKline, Mr. Pyrce managed the roll-up strategy for the Company's clinical laboratory group, acquiring a portfolio of regional clinical labs across the country. Mr. Pyrce soon learned that owning, repositioning and ultimately disposing of these medical office properties was a highly profitable business.

Mr. Pyrce was Chief Business officer of Inovio AS, an Oslo, Norway-based biopharmaceutical firm developing monoclonal antibodies, protein therapeutics and vaccines. Mr. Pyrce negotiated the sale of Inovio to Genetronics Biomedical, a San Diego-based firm with similar product development programs, with the company renamed, Inovio Biomedical Corporation.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Pyrce was Vice President of Corporate Development of Vical Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, and was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Baxter Healthcare.

A graduate of Northern Illinois University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Biology, Mr. Pyrce holds a Master of Business Administration in Financial Management from the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is also an alumnus of the Advanced Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.

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