General Counsel · Corporate Secretary · Board Advisor
Over twenty-five years at the intersection of law, capital, biotech, and software. I help founders, boards, and investors make consequential decisions and build the professional infrastructure to execute them.
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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 simultaneously — because for over 25 years, he has operated 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.
As Board-appointed Corporate Secretary at a clinical-stage oncology company, Raj participated in all Board meetings including Executive Sessions — a level of governance access that is rare for non-director officers and reflects the trust built over five years at the table. He advises on a selective basis: boards, capital allocators, and founders navigating something that requires more than one lens.
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.