Af­ter a short stint at In­ter­cept, Rachel McMinn makes the leap from biotech an­a­lyst to biotech CEO

Over a 13-year ca­reer as a biotech an­a­lyst at Piper Jaf­fray, Cowen and Bank of Amer­i­ca Mer­rill Lynch, Rachel McMinn learned a lot about the in­dus­try. Enough to think that maybe she should be the one run­ning the com­pa­ny rather than just ask­ing ques­tions — and dis­cussing op­tions — re­lat­ed to its per­for­mance.

“Over time I felt I was giv­ing a lot of com­pa­nies free ad­vice,” McMinn says. “I felt that maybe I could do it.”

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