Mischa Travers
Chief Operating Officer at Nan Fung Life Sciences
Profile
Mischa Travers is the US Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Pivotal Life Sciences.
He joined Pivotal in 2022 and brings over 20 years’ experience in finance, legal, and operating roles across a range of organizations.
Prior to Pivotal, he was Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel at Cequence Security, a venture-backed cybersecurity software company.
Prior to that, Mr. Travers was a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell where he advised technology and life sciences companies on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, corporate governance, strategic partnerships, and SEC reporting and compliance issues; a derivatives trader and merger arbitrageur at Cutler Group, LP; and an investment banker focusing on the software industry at Credit Suisse First Boston.
Mr. Travers holds a J.D.
degree from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.S.
in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.
Mischa Travers active positions
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Nan Fung Life Sciences
Nan Fung Life Sciences Investment ManagersFinance Nan Fung Life Sciences (Nan Fung Life Sciences) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vervain Group (Holdings) Ltd founded in 1954 by Vincent Cheung. The firm is headquartered in Hong Kong. | Chief Operating Officer | 2021-12-31 |
Pivotal Bioventure Partners Investment Advisor LLC
Pivotal Bioventure Partners Investment Advisor LLC Investment ManagersFinance Pivotal Bioventure Partners Investment Advisor LLC (Pivotal Bioventure) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Vincent Cheung. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Chief Operating Officer | 2022-08-31 |
Cequence Security, Inc.
Cequence Security, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Cequence Security, Inc. provides cybersecurity software solutions. Its primary product is Cequence Application Security Platform, which protects web, mobile, and API-based application infrastructure from automated attacks, malicious bots, and exploits. The company was founded by Ameya Talwalkar, Michael Barrett, Rod A. Beckstrom, and Shreyans Mehta in 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Chief Operating Officer | - |
Former positions of Mischa Travers
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Cutler Group LLC
Cutler Group LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Cutler Group LLC is a private company that combines expertise in mathematics, technology, and finance to be the most efficient producer of liquidity in the exchange traded equity option space. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company is building a unified system that efficiently trades and risk manages across all listed, electronically-traded, derivative products. The CEO of the company is Jonathan Lee Hill. | Private Equity Investor | 2020-11-30 |
Credit Suisse Securities (Canada), Inc
Credit Suisse Securities (Canada), Inc Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 2003-03-31 |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is an international law firm that provides legal services to clients. The company serves multinational corporations, international financial institutions, sovereign governments and its agencies and domestic corporations and financial institutions. The company was founded by George Cleary, Leo Gottlieb, Henry Friendly, Mel Steen, Hugh Cox, Fowler Hamilton and George Ball in 1946 and it is headquartered in New York, NY. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 1999-11-30 |
Training of Mischa Travers
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | Undergraduate Degree |
The University of Chicago Law School | Graduate Degree |
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Nan Fung Life Sciences
Nan Fung Life Sciences Investment ManagersFinance Nan Fung Life Sciences (Nan Fung Life Sciences) is a venture capital subsidiary of Vervain Group (Holdings) Ltd founded in 1954 by Vincent Cheung. The firm is headquartered in Hong Kong. | Finance |
Pivotal Bioventure Partners Investment Advisor LLC
Pivotal Bioventure Partners Investment Advisor LLC Investment ManagersFinance Pivotal Bioventure Partners Investment Advisor LLC (Pivotal Bioventure) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Vincent Cheung. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Cequence Security, Inc.
Cequence Security, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Cequence Security, Inc. provides cybersecurity software solutions. Its primary product is Cequence Application Security Platform, which protects web, mobile, and API-based application infrastructure from automated attacks, malicious bots, and exploits. The company was founded by Ameya Talwalkar, Michael Barrett, Rod A. Beckstrom, and Shreyans Mehta in 2015 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | Technology Services |
Cutler Group LLC
Cutler Group LLC Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Cutler Group LLC is a private company that combines expertise in mathematics, technology, and finance to be the most efficient producer of liquidity in the exchange traded equity option space. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company is building a unified system that efficiently trades and risk manages across all listed, electronically-traded, derivative products. The CEO of the company is Jonathan Lee Hill. | Finance |
Credit Suisse Securities (Canada), Inc
Credit Suisse Securities (Canada), Inc Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research. | Finance |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is an international law firm that provides legal services to clients. The company serves multinational corporations, international financial institutions, sovereign governments and its agencies and domestic corporations and financial institutions. The company was founded by George Cleary, Leo Gottlieb, Henry Friendly, Mel Steen, Hugh Cox, Fowler Hamilton and George Ball in 1946 and it is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
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