Richard Passov

Former Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Zoetis Inc.

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Richard Passov has more than 25 years of experience across technology and life science companies.  He helped capitalize Sun Microsystems through its hyper-growth phase, was one of the first employees in Intel’s Venture Capital group and helped steer Pfizer through several acquisitions, strategic reviews of R&D productivity and led the divestiture of Zoetis and it’s successful IPO. He’s a co-founder of Iota Biosciences, board member of OffAssignment, Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley’s Fung Institute, guest columnist at 3QuarksDaily, and is researching the anthropology of computation.