Chief Executive Officer & Portfolio Manager
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Altamont Pharma Holdings as well as the Co-Founder and General Partner of Annex Ventures. Mark has been investing in startup Life Science and Technology companies for over 20 years.
Mark is the Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board of Drawbridge Realty, a San Francisco based real estate development and investment company, which owns over 6 million square feet of commercial real estate leased to Technology and Life Science companies predominantly in the western United States. Drawbridge Realty's portfolio exceeds $2 billion in asset value. In December 2014, Drawbridge Realty formed a partnership with international asset management firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co, LP (“KKR”) which made a significant investment in the company to substantially grow the platform.
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Perceptive Real Estate Equities, Inc., a real estate development and investment company based in Dallas, TX with offices in Silicon Valley.
Mark is the Co-Founder, lead investor and serves on the Board of Directors of Cessation Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Dallas, Texas with research laboratories in San Diego, California.
Mark serves on the Board of Directors of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, a world-renowned biomedical research institute employing over 2,400 scientists and support staff. Scripps Research Institute has created 80+ spin-off biotech companies, 15 FDA approved drugs, and currently has 30 drugs in its pipeline.
Mark was the founding donor with a multimillion dollar gift establishing The Pearson Center for Addiction Research, which was founded in 2003 on The Scripps Research Institute campus in La Jolla, California by Mark Pearson, Dr. George Koob, Ph.D., and Dr. Barbara Mason, Ph.D.
Mark earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of San Francisco and a Masters degree in Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was a Sloan Fellow.