Sean Grant, MBA is the Chief Financial Officer at Vera Therapeutics where he oversees all of Vera’s financial operations including financial strategy, investor relations, accounting operations, financial planning and analysis, tax, and treasury. Mr. Grant brings nearly 15 years of multi-disciplinary experience in healthcare and financial services. He joins Vera from CareDx, where he was Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development. During his tenure, he led M&A, venture investments and partnerships across diagnostics, therapeutics, and digital platforms.Prior to joining CareDx, Mr. Grant served as Vice President in the Investment Banking Healthcare Division at Citigroup. While at Citigroup, he specialized in public and private capital raising as well as M&A, and executed a broad range of transactions for many of the world’s leading life sciences companies including Gilead, Kite Pharma, and CRISPR Therapeutics. Previous to CitiGroup, he held finance, strategy and business development roles at Piper Jaffray, Grant Consulting, and ESI Group.Mr. Grant holds an MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business and a BA in Government and International Politics from George Mason University.