Dennis Purcell

Dennis Purcell is the original founder of Aisling Capital LLC and currently serves as a senior advisor. Previously, he served as the Senior Managing Partner. Prior to Aisling Capital, Dennis served as Managing Director of the Life Sciences Investment Banking Group at Chase H&Q (formerly Hambrecht & Quist) for more than five years. While at H&Q, he was directly involved with more than 200 completed transactions and supervised more than $10 billion of financing and advisory assignments in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical products industries. During his tenure, BioWorld Today and other industry publications cited H&Q as the leading underwriter of life sciences securities. Prior to joining H&Q, Dennis was a Managing Director in the Healthcare Group at PaineWebber, Inc. Dennis is a frequent commentator on the industry and has been honored in the “Biotech Hall of Fame” by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, named to the Biotechnology All-Stars list by Forbes ASAP, honored as one of the top 50 Irish-American businessmen, and cited as one of the top 100 contributors to the biotechnology industry. He received his master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Delaware.