{"id":35237,"date":"2024-04-02T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/najafi.capital\/individual-investor\/individual-angel-rory-riggs\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T11:39:35","slug":"individual-angel-rory-riggs","status":"publish","type":"individual-investor","link":"https:\/\/najafi.capital\/pl\/individual-investor\/individual-angel-rory-riggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Osoba\/Anio\u0142: Rory Riggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory Riggs is the Managing Member of Balfour, LLC a firm specializing in early-stage entrepreneurial activities in healthcare and biotechnology. He is also Chairman of Royalty Pharma AG.  He recently served as the president and director of Biomatrix Corporation (NYSE Ticker: BXM) until it was sold to Genzyme Corporation in December, 2000. 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