Richard Brown
Group Head Pharma & Life Sciences Vertical at PNC Bank
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Brown is a seasoned business and finance executive with over 30 years of experience building high-growth companies across corporate banking, venture capital and operational leadership in tech and life sciences. As Group Head for Pharma & Life Sciences at PNC, he combines deep credit structuring and portfolio management expertise with hands-on product, engineering and business development experience accrued earlier in his career. He has led investments and exits from both public and private companies, served on 11 boards, and cultivated an extensive network across VC, PE and advisory firms. Known for blending quantitative rigor with practical operating judgment, he has repeatedly translated technical product knowledge into commercial scale—growing a fiber‑optic business from $20M to $60M early in his career. Based in Durham, NC, Richard pairs an MBA from Tuck and an engineering degree from Duke with a track record of sourcing, structuring and executing complex financings for innovation-driven companies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), magna cum laude at Duke UniversityMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Dartmouth College - The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Github Skills (19)
middleware7
moleculer7
kubernetes4
admin4
java4
openid4
helm4
react4
react-admin4
openid-connect3
infiniband3
mpi2
low-latency2
golang2
spid2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LeedsCC/QC-MPI-Microservice
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Qewd-Courier (QC) oriented Master Patient Index (MPI) MicroService (MS) - for use within Qewd-Courier
Contributions:15 releases, 33 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 5 months
golangmpiindexpatientmaster
richardcbrown/QC-MPI-Microservice
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Qewd-Courier (QC) oriented Master Patient Index (MPI) MicroService (MS) - for use within Qewd-Courier
Contributions:6 PRs, 20 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 9 months
golangmpiinfinibandindexpatient
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