Joe is a seasoned corporate lawyer with substantial experience in corporate strategic planning, public and private finance, M&A transactions and product-focused biopharmaceutical licensing.

Prior to founding FDR, Joe was an Associate General Counsel at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he managed the Corporate Law and Research and Product Alliance Groups within the legal department. Joe served on the executive management team responsible for the corporate strategic planning process, and on the Strategic Business Team that managed Millennium’s oncology franchise. While at Millennium, Joe led a coalition of prominent biotechnology companies and the Biotechnology Industry Organization in an effort that resulted in the landmark issuance by the SEC of Rule 3a-8—new federal law that has substantially increased the opportunities for strategic investments by cash-rich biopharmaceuticals in early-stage growth companies.

Before joining Millennium, Joe was Vice President and Associate General Counsel of United Asset Management Corporation, then a NYSE-listed holding company of nearly 50 domestic and foreign investment firms, with roughly $200 billion under management. Joe began his career at Hill & Barlow, then a leading Boston-based law firm, where he concentrated his practice on M&A and venture capital transactions. Joe received an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.

Joe serves on the Genetics Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School – Partners Healthcare Center for Genetics and Genomics (www.hpcgg.org), a large-scale collaboration that seeks to promote the incorporation of genetics into clinical medicine, and on the Medical Science and Technology Council of Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/ps/). Joe is also a member of the Board of Directors of CAVU Foundation (www.cavufoundation.org), a not-for-profit organization supporting innovative community programs and services that enhance the health care of underserved children in Massachusetts.