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Mark Simon

Co-Founder and Advisor

New York Office  |  mark.simon@torreya.com   |   212.257.5809

Mark Simon, Torreya Co-Founder and Advisor, has 30 plus years experience advising biotech and specialty pharma companies. He has worked on more than 175 financing and M&A transactions totaling over $50 billion in value.

Before co-founding Torreya in 2007, Mark was a Managing Director and the Head of Life Sciences Investment Banking at Citigroup, where he covered global pharmaceutical companies, with a focus on large-capitalization players in the US, Europe, and Japan. Prior to his tenure at Citigroup, Mark served as a Managing Director at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco and New York. There, he was involved in raising 45% of all biotech dollars raised in the US from 1999-2001.

Before moving into Investment Banking, Mark was a senior biotech research analyst at Robertson Stephens, where he was named Wall Street All-Star Analyst three years in a row. He began his career as a research associate at Kidder Peabody in New York in 1984, covering biotechnology and health care services companies.

Mark holds a B.A. in history from Columbia College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

He serves on several boards of philanthropic organizations and for-profit companies.