FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL, FLYING L PARTNERS
WHY: One of OC’s top medtech investors. Leads Newport Beach-based outpost of venture firm Flying L Partners; serves as managing director of San Francisco-based Versant Ventures. Founder, American Medical Options, sold to Allergan in 1986; founder, ophthalmic surgical company Chiron Vision, sold to Bausch & Lomb in 1997.
RECENT: Flying L participated in a $60M Series B round for Irvine-based ophthalmic drugmaker Tarsus Pharmaceuticals in January. Tarsus went public in October. Versant an early backer of Inari Medical, which also had well received IPO this year.
NOTABLE: Serves on the boards of local device makers Glaukos Corp., Edwards Lifesciences Corp.
2020 HOBBY: “My wife Marsha and I have gone on several road trips in the western US. What a delight to see and experience our beautiful country for days at a time, rather than the brief view from 40,000 feet.”
