Steven H. Holtzman
	Photo by Phil Farnsworth

Original Appointment: March 2004

Steven H. Holtzman is a founder and the chairman and chief executive officer of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ipi.com). Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Infinity is an innovative cancer drug discovery and development company that leverages its strength in small molecule drug technologies to bring important new medicines to patients.

Prior to starting Infinity, from early 1994 to 2001, Holtzman was the chief business officer of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MLNM), a pioneer in the development and application of modern genetic and genomic technologies to discover new drugs.

Prior to joining Millennium, he was a founder and the executive vice president of DNX Corporation, the first commercial enterprise devoted to the development of agricultural, biomedical, and pharmaceutical applications of transgenic (genetically engineered) animal technology.

In the early 1980s, Holtzman conceived of and was the founding executive director of the Ohio Edison Program, the nation's first state government program directed to achieving economic development through funding young technology-based ventures and university/industry collaborative research and development efforts.

In the late 1970s, he was an instructor and tutor in moral philosophy and the philosophy of language at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, U.K.

Holtzman cofounded and from 1995 to 2000 was the cochair of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Bioethics Committee. From 1996 to 2001, he served as a presidential appointee to the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, the principal advisory body to the President and Congress on ethical issues in the biomedical and life sciences

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANDS) and a vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hastings Center for Ethics and the Life Sciences.

Holtzman received his B.A. in philosophy from Michigan State University and his B.Phil. graduate degree in philosophy from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes scholar. He is married to Tracy Stewart and has two children, Niki and Bryan. His primary musical interests include jazz, r&b, and late-'60s/early-'70s rock'n'roll: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Grateful Dead, the Beatles, and Eric Clapton.

"Berklee is a unique resource, institution, and Boston-based asset. We should be able to make the college the philanthropic focus of the area's new generation of successful high-tech/biomedical entrepreneurs and private equity investors," Holtzman says. "My goal as a trustee is to help to create this connection."