Dion Madsen

Dion brings over 25 years of senior management experience as an investor and health investor leader. Prior to founding Amplitude, he led BDC Capital’s Healthcare Fund, was Founder and Managing Director of Physic Ventures, and was Managing Director of Unilever Technology Ventures, Unilever’s North American corporate venture fund. Prior to Unilever, Dion was Director of Investor Relations and worked in Corporate Development at Chiron Corporation in San Francisco where he built a new strategy for the company’s $500M BioPharma business. Before moving to San Francisco, Dion spent five years as Partner of RBC Capital Partners’ Life Sciences Venture Fund, the first third-party capital fund in RBC Capital Partners’ history.

Dion is a founding member of C100, a select group of the top 100 Canadians in the San Francisco Bay area, and has sat on the boards of directors of many venture capital funds and companies in the pharmaceutical and health care industries. He has also held the roles of M&A Advisor, Strategic Consultant and CFO for a biotechnology company. Dion is a CFA® charterholder and has a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Marketing from the University of Saskatchewan