Edwin M. Kania, Jr. has served on the TransMedics Board since December 2003 and is the managing partner of FarField Partners, a personal venture capital investment and advisory firm.
He was co-founder of Flagship Pioneering and served as the firm's initial chairman between 2001 and 2014, formally retiring in late 2018, and was also managing partner of the predecessor OneLiberty Funds, an early lead investor in TransMedics.
Over more than 40 years in the venture capital industry he has served on the boards of numerous private and public companies; he holds a physics degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.