Overview

Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD  serves as Co-Chief Investment Officer and Senior Portfolio Manager for Eventide. He serves as the Lead Portfolio Manager for the Eventide Gilead Fund, the Eventide Healthcare & Life Sciences Fund, and the Eventide Exponential Technologies Fund. He also is a Managing Director for Eventide Ventures, as well as a Founding Member of Eventide. Dr. Kuruvilla has a background in healthcare, statistics, and investing. Concurrent with his early years at Eventide, he was a Principal at Clarus Ventures, a healthcare and life sciences venture capital firm subsequently acquired by Blackstone. Earlier in his career, Dr. Kuruvilla was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where he led the development of a new microarray between the Broad Institute and a publicly-traded company Affymetrix. Prior to his investing career, Dr. Kuruvilla was resident, chief resident, and fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, where he cared for adult and pediatric patients suffering from a variety of hematologic, oncologic, and autoimmune disorders. Subsequently, he was a research fellow at MIT where he designed and implemented statistical algorithms involving logistic regression and pseudo-Bayesian expectation maximization. Dr. Kuruvilla holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, a PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University, an SM in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and a BS in Chemistry from Caltech.

I-hung Shih, PhD  serves as Co-Portfolio Manager for the Eventide Healthcare & Life Sciences Fund, as well as a Managing Director for Eventide Ventures. Prior to joining Eventide, Dr. Shih was Co-Head of the Biotech Private Investments team at Wellington Management. She also served as Global Industry Analyst and Co-Manager for Wellington's Smallcap and SMID Cap Biotech Strategies. Before her tenure at Wellington Management, Dr. Shih was a Senior Biotech Analyst at T. Rowe Price, covering US biotech companies and Co-Managing the Institutional US Structured Research Fund. She also served as the Lead Officer for US biopharma investment in public and private equity at Temasek International and as an Associate in investment banking on the Credit Suisse Biotech Team. Dr. Shih holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, a PhD in Biochemistry from Duke University, and a BS in Chemistry from National Taiwan University. Additionally, she was a research fellow at the Whitehead Institute at MIT and the National Institutes of Health.