Dave Neal

Chief Financial Officer and Board Member

Dave Neal is the CFO and a Co-Founder of Belhaven Biopharma and serves as a Board Member. Mr. Neal is a leading expert on the intersection of startups, law, and finance. As a result of his more than two decades as a founder, C-level team member and financier of early-stage companies, he has amassed broad experience in all sectors of the startup landscape. He has managed over $300 million in financing during his career. In addition to his corporate roles, Dave has been a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC for more than twenty years and served for five years as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the UNC School of Law. Mr. Neal holds a BS and a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MBA from Stanford University.