Jeffrey Marrazzo

Jeffrey Marrazzo is co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Spark and serves on the board of directors. He is an experienced entrepreneur dedicated to curing disease through genomic medicine. Jeff was part of the founding management of Generation Health, a pharmacogenomics medicines company that was acquired by CVS Caremark in 2009, and a senior member of the business development and finance teams at Tengion, a venture-backed regenerative medicine company that went public in 2010. Most recently, Jeff launched the U.S. division of Molecular Health, Inc., securing capital and recruiting a management team for this emerging leader in personalized cancer therapy. Throughout his career, he has helped raise or place more than $150 million in venture capital and has led or co-led the formation of novel strategic partnerships with the FDA, Quest Diagnostics, GE Healthcare and SAP. Previously, he served as healthcare advisor to former Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell and as an IBM management consultant to global pharmaceutical companies. He has also advised investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, Safeguard Scientifics and BioAdvance. Jeff holds a dual M.B.A./M.P.A. from The Wharton School and Harvard University, a program which he founded and a B.S.E. and B.A. in systems science and engineering and economics from the University of Pennsylvania.