About us

BiotechEast provides a range of online and offline services to the life science community, both overseas and in Taiwan.

Use this website to access up-to-date industry news and analysis, company information and profiles, upcoming events, and details of government, educational and private sector research Institutes. In addition to biotech and pharmaceutical firms, the Companies section includes contact information and more for Chinese medicine companies, pharmaceutical trading companies, medical equipment suppliers and Taiwan's major biotechnology investors.

Executive team

David Silver
President
dsilver@biotecheast.com
B.PhEd, Otago University, New Zealand
Based in Taiwan for the last 12 years, David has held media and marketing positions in a number of local companies. Involved in the first out-licensing of Taiwan biotechnology to an overseas company with Taipei's Biowell Technologies, David has a wealth of marketing expertise, communications skills and contacts within Taiwan's life-science community.

Raymond Wu
Director
D.B.A. candidate, University of South Australia, Australia
M.B.A., Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Alumni of London Business School, Investment Management, UK
B.S. in Industrial Management, National Chenkung University, Taiwan
Most recently a senior specialist with the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development in London, Raymond has over the last 20 years managed and presided over numerous start-ups and high-tech companies in Taiwan and the USA. With expertise in technology assessment, business plan development, project finance and financial modeling, Raymond is working in these areas for BiotechEast's clients.

Peter Griffith
Director
Chartered Financial Analyst, CFA Institute
B. Comm. (Hons.), University of Windsor, Canada
Peter has been an investment manager for a private investment company for the past three years. For the eight years prior to that Peter was an institutional stockbroker at renowned securities houses in Taipei. As part of the QFII (Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor) team at Entrust Securities, later moving to Taiwan Securities, Peter's team consistently garnered the largest market share of local brokers serving QFII. As a cofounder of BiotechEast and an experienced financial analyst, Peter has a strong understanding of Taiwan's growing sector of public life science companies.

Dr. Elizabeth Green-Sah
American Representative
Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Tufts University, USA
M.A. in Biophysics, Duke University, USA
B.A. in Chemistry, Duke University, USA
International Business, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Along with a distinguished career as a DNA researcher, with published works in Science magazine and others, Elizabeth has owned and managed consulting and technology firms in both the United States and Taiwan. With stints in real estate development, as an executive recruiter, technology licensing negotiator, and most recently as president of a biotechnology venture capital fund in Taiwan, Primasia Bio-Ventures, Elizabeth brings BiotechEast unparalleled experience and professional knowledge of both business and biotech. Elizabeth currently resides in San Francisco and heads BiotechEast's operations in the USA.

BiotechEast Co., Ltd.
12F-2, No. 109 Hoping E. Rd., Sec. 3, Daan District
Taipei 10675, Taiwan
Ph: 886 2 27324800
Fax: 886 2 27324108
mail@biotecheast.com
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