Benjamin Williams

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Biography

Mr. Benjamin Williams is a Co-Founder at 4M Therapeutics. He also serves as Advisor at BioNeex. He served as Chief Business Officer & Vice President of Corporate Development at 4M Therapeutics. He co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Firecracker. He served as Venture Partner at Wolfram Ventures. Previously, he Co-Founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at CarePlace Health. He was previously CEO/Co-founder of Firecracker, an adaptive learning platform acquired by Wolters Kluwer (Euronext: WKL). Prior to Firecracker's acquisition, 1 out of every 2 US medical students used Firecracker at some point during medical school. Before Firecracker, he was CEO/Founder of Firefly Health, an online support community for patients and caregivers that grew to 40,000+ members before it was sold to a Co-Founder of Facebook. Before Firefly, he was Executive Director of the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC), a nonprofit that provides free health care to millions of underprivileged children worldwide and coordinates clinical rotations and volunteerism for 700+ healthcare professionals and students annually. He studied Biology and Health Policy at Harvard College. In the lab, he focused on assessing the protective effect of small molecules such as Topiramate on neonatal hypoxia. Outside the lab, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Health Policy Review and President of the Harvard Health Policy Society.