Antoine Papiernik
Chairman & Managing Partner, Sofinnova Partners
Antoine Papiernik is Chairman and Managing Partner at Sofinnova Partners, which he joined in 1997. Antoine actively invests through Sofinnova’s Capital Strategy, the firm’s flagship investment strategy. Over his career, he has been an initial investor and active board member in a number of publicly listed companies including: Actelion (ultimately sold to J&J), ProQR, NovusPharma (sold to CTI), Movetis (sold to Shire), and Shockwave Medical (sold to Johnson and Johnson). Trade sale success stories of private companies include CoreValve (sold to Medtronic), Fovea (sold to Sanofi Aventis), Ethical Oncology Science (EOS, sold to Clovis Oncology) and Recor Medical (sold to Otsuka). He has also invested in and is a board member of private companies Reflexion Medical, Tissium, Pi-Cardia, SafeHeal, Noema Pharma, May Health, Highlife and Galvanize. Antoine has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He has been selected twice for the Forbes Midas List, an annual ranking recognizing the world’s top venture capital investors. Antoine is one of the few European and life science investors to have appeared on the prestigious list.