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JOHN H. ABELES, M.D. Dr Abeles was born in 1945 in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He received his Medical degree as well as a degree in Pharmacology from the University of Birmingham, England, in 1969. He practised Medicine in London, before joining the Pharmaceutical Industry as a Senior Medical Executive, with Sterling Drug, Pfizer Inc and Revlon Health Care. In 1975 he became a Wall Street health-care analyst with Kidder Peabody until 1980, when he formed MedVest and later Northlea Partners. Since March 1992, Dr. Abeles has been the Founder, Sole Investor and General Partner of Northlea Partners Ltd., a private venture capital and private capital family office headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Since 1980, Dr. Abeles has also been President of MedVest, Inc., a business and financial consulting firm. He has been instrumental in helping promulgate many early stage medical and other companies; some are still private and several have emerged into the public arena. He sits on several private company boards He was a Managing Member of ProMed Capital LLC, a New York investment group that promulgated several Israeli medical venture companies and investments. Dr Abeles serves as an Advisory Board Member of the College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, and is on the Advisory Board of the Higuchi BioSciences Institute at the University of Kansas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London. He is also the Managing Member of Dalyda Finance LLC, a family company engaging promising artistic and performing talent.
