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Jim Trenkle

Departments

Venture Investments, Novo Holdings US Inc.

Position

Partner

Jim Trenkle joined Novo Ventures (US) Inc. as a Partner in May 2022. Jim brings a background in R&D, commercialization, and early stage biotech investing and transactions. Prior to joining Novo, Jim was Head of Investments at Sanofi Ventures in Cambridge, MA, where he was responsible for a team making investments into private US-based therapeutics life science companies. Prior to Sanofi, Jim was Vice President of Investments with Pivotal bioVenture Partners in San Francisco. Jim began his career with Gilead Sciences where he held positions of increasing responsibility in medicinal chemistry, project and portfolio management, and commercial strategy, largely focused on hepatitis C and other liver diseases.

Jim completed a B.S. in Honors Chemistry at University of Michigan, a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an M.B.A. from University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

 

Investing to benefit people and the planet

Novo Holdings A/S

Tuborg Havnevej 19

2900 Hellerup Denmark

+45 3527 6500

Email: Info@novoholdings.dk

CVR# 24257630

Media Relations

Christian Mostrup Scheel

Head of Public Relations

Email: novoholdingsmedia@novo.dk

+45 3067 4805

Novo Holdings US Inc.*

Boston:

200 Clarendon Street, Floor 45

Boston, MA 02116 USA

San Francisco:

One Market Plaza, Floor 17 of the Steuart Tower

San Francisco, CA 94105 USA

+1 (415) 552-6686

Email: Info@novoholdings.dk

Novo Holdings Equity Asia Pte. Ltd.*

#40-01, 6 Battery Road

Singapore 049909

Email: Info@novoholdings.dk

Novo Holdings (UK office)

16 Berkeley Street

London W1J 8DZ

Email: Info@novoholdings.dk

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*Novo Ventures (US) Inc., Novo Holdings US Inc., comprising Novo Growth and Principal Investments, and Novo Holdings Equity Asia Pte. Ltd. are separate legal entities that provide certain consultancy services to Novo Holdings A/S, mainly within the areas of identifying, analysing and negotiating various investment opportunities among life science and biotech companies in the US as well as certain follow-up activities related thereto, such as board memberships, financial control and reporting efforts.

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