Bernard Gilly PhD, has over thirty years of experience in the financial and pharmaceutical sectors, and as an entrepreneur. He co-founded BrainEver in 2015 and since served as CEO. In 2011, he created iBionext, an innovation ecosystem to develop biotech and medtech companies, in France. He is currently CEO of GenSight Biologics and a non-executive chairman of Pixium Vision,Tissium (2013), Prophesee, Chronolife (2015) and Tilak Healthcare (2016). In 2005, Bernard Gilly was Chairman and CEO of Fovea Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company he founded in 2005 and sold to Sanofi in 2009, before becoming Senior VP of the Ophthalmology Division of Sanofi until 2012. From 2000 to 2005, Bernard Gilly was a Partner at Sofinnova Partners. He founded and invested in several companies, including Fovea Pharmaceuticals (France), Sequoia Pharmaceuticals (USA), Faust Pharmaceuticals (France, now Domain Therapeutics) and Cellzome (Germany). Prior to joining Sofinnova, Bernard Gilly was President and CEO of Transgene, a company he drove from its early financing round in 1994 to its dual listing on the Nasdaq and the Nouveau Marché (Now Euronext-C) in1998, successfully raising €160m. Before Transgene, Bernard Gilly spent 6 years as VP R&D at Pasteur-Mérieux-Connaught, now Sanofi Pasteur.
Bernard Gilly, PhD graduated from the Institut National Agronomique and a PhD from Université de Rennes (France), INSEAD.