Our Team
Scientists and builders who originate conviction.
MEET THE TEAM
MICHAEL CALORE
Director of Investor Relations
JEFF BREAY
Head Trader
PIETER BOELHOUWER
Managing Director + Strategy and Operations
KLIO DiCENZO
Director of Human Resources
DANIELLE FELDMAN, PhD
Entrepreneur in Residence
JAMES C. GREENWOOD
Advisor
MICHAEL CALORE
Director of Investor Relations
Michael Calore is the Director of Investor Relations at RA Capital Management. Michael’s primary responsibility at RA Capital is to start and maintain relationships with current and potential investors. He was previously a marketing manager at Brighton House Associates, assisting with fundraising campaigns for a diverse group of investment managers, including private equity, venture capital, real estate, and hedge funds. He holds a BS in Finance from Providence College.
JEFF BREAY
Head Trader
Jeff Breay is a Head Trader at RA Capital Management. His responsibilities include managing the portfolio’s public equity positions, monitoring market, sector, and individual equity dynamics, and maintaining relationships with broker/dealer counterparties. Jeff holds a BA in Economics and Psychology from Georgetown. Prior to joining RA Capital, Jeff worked for over 10 years as an institutional equity sales trader, primarily at KCG Holdings, Inc., where he managed the Boston office.
PIETER BOELHOUWER
Managing Director
Pieter Boelhouwer is a Managing Director of Strategy and Operations at RA Capital Management. Pieter’s primary responsibility at RA Capital is to lead major strategic initiatives and drive operational excellence across the firm. Pieter holds a BA from Trinity College and a JD from Yale Law School. Pieter previously worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he managed a variety of healthcare engagements, including pharmaceutical mergers, biotech product launch plans, OTC product rationalization, and hospital acquisitions. He held senior management positions at two successful start-up companies that were acquired and he has over 14 years of experience investing in the global healthcare sector, both as a Partner and Managing Director at Matrix Capital Management and as a General Partner and Managing Director at Ayer Capital Management, a healthcare-focused hedge fund. He also gained extensive legislative and public policy experience early in his career as a Legislative Aide to former United States Senator David Boren, and as a Domestic Policy Advisor to former Vice President Al Gore. Pieter has been recognized as one of the outstanding leaders in the U.S. through his selection as a White House Fellow, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the White House Fellows Foundation.
KLIO DiCENZO
Director of Human Resources
Klio DiCenzo is the Director of Human Resources at RA Capital Management. Klio’s primary responsibilities at RA Capital are to oversee talent development, recruiting, people operations, and culture. Klio also partners with portfolio companies to provide guidance and thought leadership and to support the creation of HR procedures and programs. Klio previously worked as Human Capital leader at athenahealth where she helped build and scale their commercial business unit; during her time there she oversaw the hiring of over 300 employees, the implementation of core HR processes and programs, and the organizational design to accommodate athenahealth’s rapid growth. Prior to athenahealth, Klio held various HR leadership positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers within their consulting, audit, and tax practices where she focused on compensation and employee experience. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching and a BA in Psychology, both from Simmons University.
DANIELLE FELDMAN, PhD
Entrepreneur in Residence
<p>Danielle Feldman is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at RAVentures and was a Co-Founder and Associate Director of Corporate Development at AthenenTx, a neuro-focused RA-funded NewCo that spun out in 2019. She has a PhD in Neuroscience from MIT and prior to her time at Athenen, she worked as an Associate on the Tech Atlas team at RA Capital, covering Neuro, GI, and Orphan indications.</p>
JAMES C. GREENWOOD
Advisor
Jim Greenwood is an Advisor at RA Capital. Prior to joining RA, Jim was the President and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the world’s largest biotechnology trade association, where he worked on international, federal, and state policies aimed at helping innovative biotech companies succeed. Prior to his 15-year tenure at BIO, Jim served for 12 years in the United States House of Representatives and was appointed Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations; in this role he led several high-profile investigations into corporate malfeasance, cyber and bio-terror threats, the national opioid crisis, as well as numerous others. Previously he served for 12 years in the Pennsylvania State House and Senate. Jim earned his BA in Sociology from Dickinson College.