Regina Hodits is a General Partner at Wellington Partners and represents the Wellington funds on the Boards of Themis, Rigontec, Middle Peak Medical, AYOXXA, and Atopix. She was a founding investor in Sapiens, which was sold to Medtronic, and an external director at GlaxoSmithKline’s Respiratory TA Board. Since joining the industry in 2000, she has become an influential investor in the European venture capital industry, focusing on early-stage and growth deals in Life Sciences.
Further stations of her career were Atlas Venture and Apax Partners, for which she served on several Boards, including Bicycle Therapeutics, F-star (partly acquired by BMS), U3 Pharma (acquired by Daiichi Sankyo), Nitec Pharma (now part of Horizon Pharma NASDAQ HZPN), Egalet (NASDAQ: EGLT), and Novamed, (acquired by SciClone, NASDAQ SCLN). Regina Hodits studied chemical engineering in Vienna and holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry. She started to build her extensive network in the global healthcare industry during her tenure at McKinsey.