Jeff Conroy is an entrepreneur and licensing executive with over 30 years of experience in the life sciences. As the Managing Director of Windward Investments, Mr. Conroy has provided strategy and licensing advisory services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, completing over $4 billion in transactions across CNS, specialty, oncology, infectious disease and cardiovascular areas.

Mr. Conroy is the Chairman and Co-founder of Embody, a medical device company developing regenerative products for the repair and replacement of tendons and ligaments. Mr. Conroy is a Director and Past Chairman of the Virginia Biotechnology Association and serves on the Virginia Bioscience Healthcare Research Corporation’s (VBHRC) Board of Directors. Earlier in his career, he was the Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Thermo BioAnalysis and worked for Cambridge Biotech and Abbott Laboratories.

Mr. Conroy holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Providence College.