William Hawkins

Active Investor

Senior Advisor at EW Healthcare Partners

Durham, North Carolina

William Hawkins, Senior Advisor at EW Healthcare Partners is an active investor based in Durham, North Carolina. This profile covers what William Hawkins backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr.William Hawkins serves as Chairman & Board Member at Bioventus. Mr. Hawkins served as Board Member at BioTissue (Biotechnology). He also served as Chairman at RegenMedTX and is currently a Board Member at Trice Medical. He serves as an Advvisor at Tidewater Investment Company.He is a Board Advisor at HealthQuest Capital and serves on the Advisory Board of FCA Health Innovations. He also serves as advisor at several healthcare and biotechnology firms. He previously served on the boards of nContact, Cereius, and AskBio, and has been a member of the board of managers of BV LLC since January 2016. He currently serves on the board of directors of MiMedx Group Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company, where he is also a member of the ethics and compliance committee. He is also a board member of Baebies, Inc., Cirtec Medical Corp., and Virtue Labs, LLC - all privately held life science companies.He is a Senior Advisor to EW Healthcare Partners, a leading private equity firm investing in life sciences.From October 2011 to July 2015, he was Chief Executive Officer of Immucor, Inc., a global provider of transfusion and transplantation diagnostic products. Prior to that, he held roles of increasing responsibility at Medtronic, Inc. from 2002 to 2011, including serving as its Chief Executive Officer from 2007 to 2011. Earlier in his career, he served as President and CEO of Novoste Corporation from 1988 to 2002 and held senior leadership roles at American Home Products (now Wyeth, LLC), Johnson & Johnson, Guidant Corp., and Eli Lilly and Co.He was elected to the Duke University Board of Trustees in 2011 and currently serves as its Vice Chairman. He is also Chair of the Duke University Health System Board of Directors and serves on the boards of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and the Focused Ultrasound Foundation Society. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in electrical and biomedical engineering from Duke University. He was selected to serve on our Board due to his extensive experience and knowledge in the life sciences industry.

Investor type: Angel
Stages: Early Stage VentureSeedLate Stage Venture
Invests in: Healthcare & BiotechDigital Health & HealthTechBiotech & PharmaMedTech & Medical DevicesSaaS & EnterpriseIoT & Connected Devices
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Typical check: $500K
Past investments: 5

Notable investments

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