Neil Exter, M.B.A., M.S.

Partner, Third Rock Ventures

Neil Exter is a partner at Third Rock Ventures, which he joined in 2007. At Third Rock, Neil focuses on the formation, development and strategy of new companies. He has more than 30 years of operating, business development and strategy experience across the spectrum of emerging and established biotechnology and technology companies. Neil has held senior operating roles at Constellation Pharmaceuticals, bluebird bio, Foundation Medicine, Pliant Therapeutics, Goldfinch Bio and Cedilla Therapeutics, among others. Prior to joining Third Rock, Neil was chief business officer of Alantos Pharmaceuticals, where he led the sale of the company to Amgen, and earlier, served as vice president for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, directing in-licensing and M&A.

Neil is a member of the investment committee of Mass General Brigham Ventures. Previously, he was a board member and treasurer of the New England Venture Capital Association and a member of the research board at Children’s Hospital.

Neil holds an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School, an M.S. from Stanford University and a B.S. from Cornell University.

Brian Jones, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Brian Jones has more than 25 years of drug discovery experience and has led the molecular discovery behind more than 20 INDs across several therapeutic areas. Most recently he spent 11 years at Novartis, where he was head of discovery chemistry for NIBR in Cambridge, Mass. Prior to that, Brian was at Merck for 16 years, initially as director of medicinal chemistry in Rahway, N.J. and subsequently as senior director at the Neuroscience Research Centre in the UK. Brian holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Imperial College, London. He was a NATO post-doctoral fellow at Yale University.