Dennis is Founder and Senior Advisor at Aisling Capital. During his tenure, Dennis has been directly involved with over two hundred completed transactions and supervised over $15 billion of financing and advisory assignments in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical products industries. Prior to Aisling Capital, Mr. Purcell served as Managing Director of the Life Sciences Investment Banking Group at Chase H&Q (formerly Hambrecht & Quist). Dennis is a frequent commentator on the industry and has been honored in various publications as a top contributor to the Life Sciences Industry. He sits on numerous private and public healthcare company boards, such as Real Endpoints and Summus Global. He is actively involved with many of the industry’s professional organizations. He is Executive Chairman of Poliwogg Holdings, a company devising new financed products for the healthcare industry. Dennis received his M.B.A. from Harvard University and his B.S. in Accounting from the University of Delaware.