Joel Sussman is a financial management consultant who serves in the capacity of CFO for early-stage companies including Garnet BioTherapeutics. His present and former clients include numerous venture capital-backed life sciences companies as well as companies in the fields of information technologies and services. Before beginning his consulting practice in 1995, he had fifteen years experience as Chief Financial Officer and/or Treasurer of public and private technology and healthcare companies. In 1997, he joined a client, CDNow, Inc., as CFO and took it public, resuming his consulting practice in 2001 after its sale to Bertelsmann AG. Mr. Sussman began his career as a banker and has an undergraduate degree from Yale University, an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Pennsylvania.
