Christopher Colecchi

Christopher Colecchi is the Managing Director of Broadview Ventures, the philanthropic venture investing arm of the Paris-based Leducq Family Trust. Broadview’s mission is to accelerate the development of cures for cardiovascular diseases through investments in promising early stage companies. Previously, Chris was the Vice President for Research Ventures and Licensing at Partners Healthcare–an integrated health system founded in 1994 by the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Chris led business development, technology transfer, and commercialization activities at Partners and managed efforts to establish strategic alliances with the life sciences industries. He also created the Partners Innovation Fund–an internal venture capital fund that makes investments in early stage science from Partners hospitals to create start-up companies to improve patient care. Earlier in his career, Chris was the Director of Clinical Trials and Industrial Relations for the Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of Clinical Monitoring for a clinical research organization (CRO) at which he oversaw the set-up and management of multi-center, industry-sponsored clinical trials at several hundred sites throughout the U.S. and Canada. Within these roles, Chris has worked directly with most of the major international pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as many in the device arena.