Charlie Bolten

Charlie Bolten was recruited to BioGenerator in July of 2009. Charlie participates in all aspects of technology commercialization at BioGenerator. His specific responsibilities include the BioGenerator Spark Fund and BioGenerator Accelerator Labs programs, which he conceived of and directs. Charlie serves as the Commercialization Director of the St. Louis Regional i6 Project where he chairs the Project Core Team and leads all investment activity. Since joining BioGenerator in 2009, Charlie has led 19 investments in 15 portfolio companies, typically participating in formation of the company and/or leading the first investment syndicate. Example portfolio companies include Confluence Life Sciences, Apse, Kypha, X-tend Energy, MediBeacon, Euclises and Array Bridge. Charlie serves on the Board of Directors for various portfolio companies. At the time of his recruitment to BioGenerator, Charlie held the position of Principal Scientist and Project Leader in the Pfizer Exploratory Immunobiology group, where he led a reverse pharmacology collaboration with PTC Therapeutics focusing on post-transcriptional regulation of T cell cytokines and was the Research Project Leader for small molecule discovery program targeting an effector T cell subtype-selective receptor.