Juan Enríquez Cabot (born 1959) is a Mexican-American academic, businessman, author, and speaker. He is currently the managing director of Excel Venture Management.

Biography

Enríquez is the son of Antonio Enríquez Savignac and Marjorie Cabot Lewis of the Boston

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. He is a graduate of

Phillips Academy Andover Phillips Academy (also known as PA, Phillips Academy Andover, or simply Andover) is a Private school, private, Mixed-sex education, co-educational college-preparatory school for Boarding school, boarding and Day school, day students located in ...

(1977) and

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, where he earned a B.A. (1981) and an MBA (1986), with honors.

Academic research

He was the Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project at

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(HBS), a fellow of Harvard's

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and an Affiliate at MIT's Synthetic Neurobiology Lab. His work has been published in the ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Science'', and ''

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''. He is the author of many books, including ''Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics'' (MIT Press, 2020), ''Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth'' (Current-Penguin Group, 2015), ''Homo Evolutis: Please Meet the Next Human Species'' (TED, 2012), ''As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth'' (Crown Business, 2005), and ''The States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future'' (Random House, 2005). He works in business, science, and domestic/international politics. Enríquez is recognized as a leading authority on the economic and political impacts of the

life sciences This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings. This science is one of the two major branches of natural science, ...

. He is currently chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy LLC, a life sciences research and investment firm, and Managing Director at Excel Venture Management. He has written several articles, including "Transforming Life, Transforming Business: the Life Science Revolution," which was co-authored with Ray Goldberg and which received a McKinsey Prize in 2000 (2nd place). Enríquez also co-authored the first map of global

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data flow, as well as HBS's working papers on "Life Sciences in Arabic Speaking Countries," "Global Life Science Data Flows and the IT industry," "

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, and Business Unusual," and "Technology, Gene Research and National Competitiveness." ''Harvard Business School Interactive'' picked Enríquez as one of the best teachers at the school, and showcased his work in its first set of faculty products. The ''

'' showcased his ideas as one of the breakthrough concepts in its first HBR List. ''

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'' profiled him as "Mr. Gene." The Van Heyst Group asked him to co-organize the life sciences summit commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of

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. The summit "The Future of Life" was sponsored by ''

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''. ''

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'' picked his ideas as one of fifty that "shaped our identity, our culture, and the world as we know it".

Business ventures

Enríquez has served on a variety of boards including:

Cabot Corporation Cabot Corporation is an American specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company operates in over 20 countries with 36 manufacturing plants, eight research and development facilities and ...

, Zipongo, NeoSensory, Synthetic Genomics, Open Water, the

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the Un ...

Genetics Advisory Council, the Chairman's International Council of the

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, the Visiting Committee of Harvard's David Rockefeller Center,

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

's EPIIC, TED's Brain Trust, Harvard Business School's PAPSAC, WGBH, and the

Museum of Science (Boston) The Museum of Science (MoS) is a nature and science museum and indoor zoological establishment located in Science Park, a plot of land in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, spanning the Charles River. Along with over 700 interactive exhibits, t ...

. Enríquez joined a multi-stage world sailing discovery voyage led by J. Craig Venter, who sequenced the

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. The expedition voyage sampled microbial

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s throughout the world's oceans. This expedition involved a number of institutions and top scholars including

The Institute for Genomic Research The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) is a non-profit genomics research institute founded by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. in October 2006. The institute was the result of consolidating four organizations: the Center for the Advancement of Ge ...

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, The

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, and Prof.

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. It also led to the discovery of a great number of new species. Enríquez served as CEO of

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

City's Urban Development Corporation, coordinator general of economic policy and chief of staff for Mexico's secretary of state, and as a member of the peace commission that negotiated the cease-fire in

Chiapas Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises Municipalities of Chiapas, 124 municipalities and its capital and large ...

' Zapatista rebellion.

References

External links

www.biotechonomy.com

Pop!Tech 2008 Talk: Dialogue on the Global Economic Crisis

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