Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
Mitochon Pharmaceuticals
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Robert Alonso, Founder & CEO – has 25 years of experience with both big pharmaceutical companies (Merck, Roche) and small biotech companies (Yaupon/Ceptaris). Most recently Mr Alonso successfully founded Yaupon/Ceptaris Therapeutics (formely known as Yaupon) where he raised over $40 million in venture capital, steered the lead program
through phase III testing and filing of an NDA (Approval was received in 2013). Ceptaris was sold in 2013 to Actellion Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Alonso is a seasoned executive who has completed over numerous licensing and other business transactions, including raising venture capital and negotiating transactions worth over $500 million. He has brought several drugs through the Investigational New Drug (IND) process and one through a successful completion of a New Drug Application (NDA). Mr. Alonso is the inventor on 6 patents and has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson College.
