The True Purpose of Investing
Featuring Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD
We believe the first and most basic question of investing should be, “What kind of companies do I want to own?”
Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Senior Portfolio Manager, Managing Director, Founding Member
Finny Kuruvilla, MD, PhD, serves as Co-Chief Investment Officer and Senior Portfolio Manager for Eventide. He serves as the Lead Portfolio Manager for Eventide’s Strategic Growth, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Technology Strategies. He also is a Managing Director for Eventide Ventures, as well as a Founding Member of Eventide.
Dr. Kuruvilla has a background in healthcare, statistics, and investing. Concurrent with his early years at Eventide, he was a Principal at Clarus Ventures, a healthcare and life sciences venture capital firm subsequently acquired by Blackstone. Earlier in his career, Dr. Kuruvilla was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where he led the development of a new microarray between the Broad Institute and a publicly-traded company Affymetrix. Prior to his investing career, Dr. Kuruvilla was resident, chief resident, and fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Kuruvilla holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, a PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University, a SM in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and a BS in Chemistry from Caltech.