Jerry Cobbs
Chief Commercialization Officer
"It is a pleasure for me to work with the dream team that has been assembled here at CPRIT. This is the most significant opportunity I have seen in my career to make a major difference in patients’ lives."
CPRIT’s Chief Commercialization Officer Jerry Cobbs has more than 25 years of capital markets experience including serving as a senior executive for the health sciences and biotechnology industries. Mr. Cobbs oversees CPRIT’s research commercialization portfolio. CPRIT’s enabling legislation encourages the agency to develop and enhance the commercialization research project results funded by the CPRIT, allowing the state to collect royalties, income and other benefits realized as a result of CPRIT funding. Mr. Cobbs’ responsibilities include strategy and planning, project management, investment risk analysis, and performance measurement.
Prior to joining CPRIT, Mr. Cobbs was a principal and Managing Director of Signet Healthcare Partners, a New York-based private equity healthcare venture fund. His previous experience includes principal and head of healthcare investment banking at Harris, Webb & Garrison Investment Bankers where he sourced, structured and raised funding for healthcare companies on both an agency and principal basis. In addition, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Quantitative Diagnostic Laboratories. He also served as Assistant Director of Technology Development at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Mr. Cobbs earned a BA in psychology with a concentration in physiology from Texas A&I University, currently Texas A&M-Kingsville, and a MBA with a concentration in finance, from the University of Houston at Clear Lake.
Mr. Cobbs joined CPRIT in November of 2009.
