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Dr. Drake is Managing General Partner of Mayflower Partners, a healthcare sector-focused investment fund. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Managing Director at Prudential Securities and was the co-founder of Vector Securities International, an investment banking firm, Vector Fund Management, a $230 million healthcare venture fund, and Deerfield Management, a $2 billion healthcare hedge fund. Dr. Drake joined the investment banking firm of Kidder, Peabody and Co., as a Biotechnology Analyst in 1983, becoming a partner in 1986. He holds a B.A. in Biology from Bowdoin College and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Neurobiology from Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Drake also serves on the Boards of Directors of Trustmark Insurance, a healthcare insurance provider, the Alliance for Aging, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and quality of life for the elderly, TLContact, a private medical information services company, Ocularis Pharma, a private specialty pharmaceutical company servicing the ophthalmic market, and Cortex Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded neuroscience company. | 