Brian Dershowitz is the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives at NewYorkBIO. Brian has extensive business development and partnerships experience with a focus on the live event industry. Brian has secured partnerships and built and managed relationships across 100,000+ mass participation events to intimate dinners featuring Heads of State and Fortune 500 executives. 

Brian previously served as a Senior Director at the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU). In this capacity, Brian developed and led a team focused on BCIU’s sector driven work across the agriculture, climate, defense & national security, digital, life sciences, and workforce development industries. Prior to BCIU oversaw business development and member acquisition at Life Science Washington, Washington State’s trade associate for the life sciences industry. He also worked at New York Road Runners (NYRR), with responsibility for securing sponsorships across NYRR’s portfolio of races. He played a key role in securing Tata Consultancy Services to serve as the first Premier Partner of NYRR. Brian also worked at Argyle Executive Forum managing content curation across all of the organization’s C-Suite conferences.

A native New Yorker and long-suffering Mets fan, Brian currently resides in Manhattan.