Omar is a Partner with Santé Ventures, an early-stage healthcare venture capital firm, and manages Santé’s Boston office and biotechnology practice. Omar partners with scientific founders and entrepreneurs across multiple therapeutic areas and modalities, investing in new medicines that hold the promise of treating and curing disease. Omar joined Santé in 2007 and rejoined in 2020 after holding various transactional and operational leadership roles within the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. He held senior leadership roles with Baxter International, Baxalta (now part of Takeda), and Kaléo, a commercial-stage biotech. In these positions, he led and managed businesses ranging from early clinical development to commercial launch, which scaled to more than $3 Billion in annual sales. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company in the healthcare practice, advising leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies on growth and M&A strategies. Omar serves as a board member for several emerging biotech startups and as an advisor and mentor to numerous organizations focused on life science entrepreneurship.
Omar received his MSE and BSE in Biomedical Engineering summa cum laude from the University of Michigan with a concentration in Tissue Engineering.