Javier Garcia

General Partner & President, Columbus Ventures

Javier García is a mathematician by training, entrepreneur, and specialist in investment and business development. He has more than twenty-five years of experience across the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life-sciences industries, having built his career on both sides of the Atlantic. His work is grounded in the belief that science should be promoted to improve life.

Over the last decade, he has focused on investment and strategic management to support and consolidate companies that transform scientific advances from research centers and universities into technologies and medical treatments that improve health outcomes. He has extensive experience connecting investment with scientific innovation so that new health solutions achieve real societal impact. He has carried out this work in both the United States and Europe, on the investor side as well as the side of companies bringing new scientific solutions to market.

Javier is committed to developing and positioning companies that address unmet medical needs. He promotes business models where social impact plays a central role and complements economic activity, defining the character of the organizations he supports.

His guiding principles include “Promote science to improve life” and the conviction that “Being a pioneer in innovation that brings hope to people is a huge responsibility and also an extraordinary motivation.”