RONALD HOVSEPIAN

Ronald Hovsepian is currently a Partner at Flagship Pioneering, a venture capital firm focused on life sciences and sustainable agriculture. Before assuming his current role, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Indigo Ag from September 2020 to January 2024, where he directed a carbon credit program that reduced or removed more than two million metric tons of carbon. His executive career includes a sixteen-year tenure in executive management at IBM, followed by CEO positions at Novell from 2005 to 2011 and Intralinks from 2011 to 2017. Hovsepian holds several prominent corporate governance positions, serving as the Chairman of Skillsoft, the Lead Independent Director at ANSYS, and an incoming board of directors member for Procore. His professional background centers on scaling enterprise software and biotechnology companies through strategic operational leadership and venture capital investment.