Jenny Rooke

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Dr. Jenny Rooke is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Genoa Ventures. She is a Board Member of InterVenn BioSciences. She is an early-stage venture capital investor. She is the Founder and serves as a Managing Director at 5 Prime Ventures. She also served as a Venture Partner at F-Prime Capital Partners (healthcare) and Anterra Capital (agriculture). She brings a combination of strategy, operating, and investing experience to her work with early stage life science companies, specializing in research tools, diagnostics, and synthetic biology. Her investing experience includes roles in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Discovery group, and at F-Prime Capital, where she served her Kauffman Fellowship. Dr. Rooke held multiple executive positions at U.S. Genomics, a venture-backed biotech start-up advancing single molecule detection technologies for diagnostics, biodefense, and research. Previously, Dr. Rooke was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co., where she advised leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies on business strategy. Dr. Rooke earned her Ph.D. in genetics from Yale University and her B.S. in physics from Georgia Tech. She is also a Board Member at Intabio. She also serves as Board Member at Venn.