Yao Ho

Managing Director @ LYFE Capital

About

Specialties: BD&L, Sourcing&Evals, Transactions, Strategic development, Financial modeling and valuations, Portfolio Planning, New Ventures.

Country

United States

City

Menlo Park

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Skill

Pharmaceutical Industry, Licensing, Business Development, Evaluations, Business Strategy, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Lifesciences, R&D, Commercialization, Validation, Regulatory Affairs, Product Development, FDA, Technology Transfer, Oncology, Drug Development, Business Analysis, Market Research, Business Transactions

Experience

Managing Director

LYFE Capital

2015-10 - Present · 11 yrs

3000 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park CA 94025

Business Development Manager

Yangtze River Pharmeceutical Group Co.,Ltd

2012-2 - 2015-9 · 3 yrs 8 mos

San Francisco, CA

In-licensing (from sourcing/evaluation to term sheet/executing partnership agreements) Portfolio planning and new ventures.

Founding Support Team

Flownami

2010-10 - 2011-9 · 1 yr

Development of business plan and slide deck, focused on strategic financial engagements with various non-dilutive and dilutive sources (Venture Capital/Corporate partnerships/Industry leaders). Initiated the creation of Board of directors.

Founding Support Team

Veloctron

2010-8 - 2011-9 · 1 yr 2 mos

Created and executed key strategic objectives to mitigate risk and maximize product-market fit.

Consultant Internship

ChinaBio, LLC

2009-11 - 2010-3 · 5 mos

Consulting engagements (China partnership focus) for various internationally recognized corporations and financial institutions. Supported China market analysis reports and event planning.

R&D Engineer

Microfluidicsystems

2006-10 - 2008-8 · 1 yr 11 mos

Development of the first automated biological detection platform for the Department of Homeland Security. With a special emphasis on PCR and mAB based testing systems, air collection and complete system maintenance, operations and protocols. (Corporate and Government facilities.)

R&D Technician

Berkeley HeartLab, Inc.

2006-6 - 2006-10 · 5 mos

Scripting and operations of Tecan robotic systems used for human sample diagnostics.

Internship

Endocrine Technologies

2005-6 - 2005-9 · 4 mos

Assisted in the creation, testing and refining of antibody based test kits (flow-through and ELISA.) Executed the design and programming of a "built from scratch" fluidic management platform.