Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Investment Partner

As a managing director in the Life Sciences Group, Janice Bourque has more than 25 years of life science experience and focuses on emerging growth stage life science companies. Before joining Hercules in 2010, Bourque advised and provided strategic corporate investor fundraising for Commons Capital and Oxford Bioscience Partners to create a global health fund focused on innovative healthcare investments for emerging and developing countries. She also was senior vice president and group head-life sciences for Comerica Bank for 4 years beginning in 2005. In addition, Bourque led the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MBC), the first biotechnology association in the world, for 12 years as President/CEO. Bourque held several other senior managerial positions, including CFO/controller of Cambridge Medical Technology Corporation, senior public accountant for Coopers & Lybrand Emerging and Middle Market Group, and project manager for NASA Space Science at UNH.

Bourque holds an M.B.A in finance and accounting and B.S. in veterinary science from the University of New Hampshire. She currently serves on the board of directors of the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and The Village Bank, as an advisor to TBS Technologies, co-President of the Crystal Lake Conservancy and a member of the Women’s Forum. She has also been named as one of Boston Magazine’s 100 most influential women.