Capital Strategist · Operator · Board Advisor
Twenty-seven years at the intersection of law, capital, biotech, and software. I help founders, boards, and investors make consequential decisions — and build the professional infrastructure that maximizes and sustains returns.
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Most advisors give you one perspective. A lawyer sees the legal risk. A banker sees the deal. A consultant sees the process. Raj Kumar gives you all three dimensions simultaneously — J.D. trained, operator by practice, and for 27 years at the intersection where law, capital, biotech, and software collide.
Trained at Genentech, seasoned through co-founding two operating companies, and tested by a decade of high-stakes advisory work, Raj brings something rare to every engagement: the ability to build and direct the full professional team a complex situation requires. Big Law partners, investment bankers, CPAs, regulatory specialists — each with their own institutional interests. Getting them aligned toward a single client outcome is a discipline in its own right.
His clients have called it a virtual large firm. A better description is senior judgment without institutional overhead. The right specialists, briefed precisely, moving in the same direction.
The law degree is a tool. The job is to build value.
Throughout his career Raj has taken equity positions alongside the companies he serves. Skin in the game changes the questions you ask and how long you stay. It means working with the same exposure as every other shareholder in the room, with creating value for them as the north star. As Board-appointed Corporate Secretary at EpicentRx, he participates in all Board meetings including Executive Sessions — governance access that is rare for non-director officers and reflects the trust built over five years at the table.
Approach
Thinking
The best way to understand how Raj works is to read how he thinks. These pieces are working frameworks applied to real problems in capital allocation, governance, and institutional decision-making.
Services
If you're navigating a financing, a governance crisis, a board transition, or a transaction that requires more than one professional discipline — let's talk. Initial conversations are confidential and without obligation.
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