Jay Shukert

Mr. Shukert is the consulting Chief Financial Officer for Siesta Medical. He has worked as a consulting CFO for development-phase biotechnology and medical device companies for more than 25 years. Mr. Shukert has helped raise and manage over $1.5 Billion to fund early-stage companies. His clients have included, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, CV Therapeutics, Prograft Medical, Spinal Kinetics, Millipede, Sutro Biopharma, Vaxcyte, Simplify Medical and PMV Pharma. Prior to his consulting work, Mr. Shukert was the Controller at Neurex Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Shukert held successive financial management positions at Genentech and was a managing consultant at Andersen Consulting. Mr. Shukert earned an M.B.A. from the University of California-Berkeley and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.