Chief Financial Officer · Venture builder
João Marcelo Carucci
Chief Financial Officer
One company. Two assets. A single runway.
CFO responsible for capital planning, runway, and investor relationships around PHP Biotech’s dual-asset story: PHP53-nb plus the GEN01-AD platform.
Asset one
PHP53-nb
The lead. A first-in-class nanobody with a preclinical clock, a CHO path, and a planned IND. This is the story that has to look like a disciplined use of capital.
Asset two
GEN01-AD
The platform. Optionality for a second payload — not a substitute for the lead, and not a reason to blur the runway model.
- assets in the financing story
- 2
- venture builder behind the founding
- FCJ
- economics and financial sciences
- Insper
The dual-asset problem
Investors do not buy a vibe. They buy a lead molecule with a clock, and optionally a platform that might mint a second molecule. Carucci’s job is to keep those two stories from cannibalizing each other: PHP53-nb has to look like a disciplined IND path; GEN01-AD has to look like optionality rather than a distraction.
Why a venture builder sits in the CFO seat
FCJ helped stand the company up. Carucci knows how seed and company-building capital actually behave — the reporting cadence, the milestone language, the difference between a scientific update and a financing event. That is the grammar of a privately held preclinical biotech.
How a venture builder became CFO
João Marcelo Carucci is Chief Financial Officer of PHP Biotech, responsible for the company’s financial strategy, capital planning, and investor relationships. He brings a venture-building and early-stage investment background matched to financing a clinical-stage deep-tech company.
He began studies in Economics and Financial Sciences at Insper in 2012 and has worked as a venture capital specialist within the FCJ Venture Builder ecosystem — the venture builder that partnered in PHP Biotech’s founding. His experience spans seed and venture investments, company building, and digital business development.
Working alongside the CEO and executive committee, Carucci focuses on modeling multi-year cash runway against milestone-driven R&D spend and communicating a complex scientific story — PHP53-nb plus the reusable GEN01-AD platform — in financial terms.
Curriculum
Education, seats, and expertise
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Education
- Economics and Financial Sciences, Insper (from 2012)
Credentials
- Economics and Financial Sciences, Insper
- Venture capital specialist, FCJ Venture Builder
Affiliations
- PHP Biotech International Inc. (Chief Financial Officer)
- FCJ Venture Builder (venture specialist; partner in company founding)
Expertise
- Biotech financing
- Venture building
- Investor communications
- Runway modeling
No peer-reviewed papers or patents are listed for João Marcelo Carucci. That is intentional. Experience, appointments, and licenses are the E-E-A-T signals on this page — not a fabricated bibliography.