Don Hayden is a Senior Advisor to Prospect Venture Partners. Don brings Prospect the experiences, insights and perspective gained during a highly successful 25-year career in pharmaceuticals and related health care businesses with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, including 15 years in senior executive positions. Most recently, Don served as Executive Vice President and President, Americas, overseeing two major pharmaceutical units and two healthcare businesses with combined annual sales in excess of $10 billion, as well as global pharmaceutical manufacturing. Don has a proven track record of innovative strategy development, growing successful products and businesses and building exceptional leadership teams.

Don began his career as a business intern with Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1981. His early career experiences included serving as Director of New Business Development and Planning for the U.S. Pharmaceutical Group, as Director of Marketing for Mead Johnson Pharmaceuticals and as a District Sales Manager within the BMS oncology division. Since 1991, Don held a number of senior management positions including Vice President and General Manager of Mead Johnson Laboratories; President of Oncology and Immunology; Senior Vice President for Worldwide Franchise Management and Business Development; President of Intercontinental and Senior Vice President, Business Development, Pharmaceuticals; President of Worldwide Medicines; Executive Vice President of Strategy, e-business, Investor Relations and Competitive Intelligence; Executive Vice President of the Health Care Group; and as Executive Vice President and President, Americas, Don received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and has an M.B.A. from Indiana University.