Steven Marcus is an entrepreneur and investor who is combining extensive experience in life sciences with his interests in technology and real estate.
As founder of RUNLABS, Steven Marcus’ key responsibilities include overseeing the strategic direction of the company, organising cluster building, developing the life science ecosystem, and managing financial structuring and fundraising initiatives.
Steven Marcus, RUNLABS’ founder, also previously set up Bugsby Property, LLC, an investment manager and real estate sponsor, to generate unconventional value from asset backed and intellectual property investments.
After graduating from Columbia Business School, he spent nearly a decade in public markets institutional investment management with top-tier investment funds in New York. In life sciences, Steven Marcus has extensive life science real estate experience. He was a part of the team that developed the leading life sciences innovation center in New York, the Alexandria Center for Life Science NYC, and he spearheaded Alexandria’s life sciences business development in India. In 2013, Steven Marcus advised Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE:ARE) on its capital markets strategy and on the creation of substantial shareholder value. This led to ARE’s largest programmatic joint venture (approx. $1.2 billion of investment, including the development of long-term life sciences clusters in Boston and San Diego) with TIAA, now Nuveen.
RUNLABS is a life sciences real estate company with a mission of Making Science Easier.Bugsby Property, LLC is an investment manager and real estate sponsor.
Child Mind Institute
Steven Marcus is a supporter of the Child Mind Institute, an independent nonprofit organisation dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders.