Amit is a Venture Partner based in our San Francisco Bay Area office and serves as COO and CBO at Dren Bio, an SR One Portfolio Company. He joined SR One in 2024 and leverages his broad drug development, operational and strategic experience to help with SR One's portfolio investments.
Prior to SR One and Dren Bio, Amit most recently served as the Vice President and Head of Business Development at Genentech. In this role, Amit was a core member of the Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED) Leadership Team, Research Review Committee, Early Stage Portfolio Committee and led a high-performing business development team that helped source and execute several strategic partnerships. During his 18-year tenure at Genentech, Amit held roles of increasing responsibility that spanned technical development, CMC, product strategy and business development. He led multiple teams over the years that made significant contributions to numerous early and late-stage clinical programs, helped shape therapeutic area strategies and established vital external partnerships across technology platforms, personalized healthcare, and several therapeutic areas.
Amit earned a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from Bangalore University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.