Brian Dovey

Brian Dovey was a business author, venture capitalist, and partner at the venture capital firm Domain Associates, which invested more than $2.8 billion in startups since 1988. He was involved in the development of more than 250 pharmaceutical and life-sciences startups and served on the boards of more than thirty-five companies (and as chairman of six) with a combined value of more than $25 billion. Dovey was an early executive and then president of a medical-technology startup, Survival Technology Inc., which developed the groundbreaking EpiPen to treat severe allergic reactions. Dovey was also a dedicated educator, teaching business students part-time, including a long-running acclaimed course at San Diego State University called “Managing the Growing Firm.”A native of New Jersey, Dovey received his BA in mathematics from Colgate University and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had three children and eight grandchildren.