Life Science Leader Steven Burrill
Elected NHM Treasurer

G. Steven Burrill, Chief Executive Officer of Burrill & Company, has been elected Treasurer of the National Health Museum (NHM) Board of Trustees. A member of the NHM Board since 2006, Burrill is also a new member of the NHM Founders Circle, having committed $250,000 in 2006 to support the project’s development.

"Throughout his long and distinguished career in the life science arena, Steve Burrill has earned a reputation as a skilled businessman and a keen observer of the extraordinary advances that are shaping the future of health and medicine, said NHM’s Chairman, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan, MD. "This reputation, along with his extensive experience in banking and finance, make him an ideal choice to hold the important office of Treasurer of the National Health Museum.”

Burrill heads the San Francisco-based Burrill & Company, a private merchant bank focused exclusively on life science companies. Burrill & Company is known for its strong networks in the life science community, and the unique advisory boards of the company, composed of former chief executives of major pharmaceutical, agricultural, and biotech companies, industry luminaries, world-renowned scientists and Nobel Laureates. The Burrill family of venture capital funds includes the Burrill Biotechnology Capital Fund, the Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund and many others. Burrill & Company currently has over $500 million under management.

Named as one of Scientific American’s “50 Visionaries" by the magazine's Board of Editors, Burrill has spent his career helping life science companies launch their operations and sustain growth in a constantly changing environment. He serves on the board of a number of publicly traded companies. Prior to founding Burrill & Company, he spent 28 years with Ernst & Young (through 1993) directing and coordinating services to clients in the biotechnology/life sciences and high technology industries worldwide. He was also the International Chairman of the Manufacturing/High Technology practice (responsible for approximately one-third of the then $6.5 billion business of the firm). His Ernst &Young experience included working with a large number of successful life science companies from their inception.

A strong champion of informal science education, Burrill is Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of The Exploratorium, one of the nation’s premier science museums located in San Francisco. He is a founder of the Foundation for the National Medals of Science and Technology and currently serves on its Board of Directors, as well as the Boards of the Bay Area Bioscience Center and the National Research Council Committee on Japan. A graduate in accounting and finance from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, he and his family make their home in San Francisco.

As an internationally recognized spokesman for the life sciences and high technology industries, Burrill has authored a variety of articles and books about the business, management and financial concerns of life science, high tech and high growth companies. He is a regular columnist for BioPharm, The Journal of BioLaw and Business, and Modern Drug Discovery and is on the Advisory Editorial Board of BioPeople. His annual reports on state of the US and European biotechnology industry are widely anticipated, standard reading for industry professionals.

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