Home About company history achievements our team Products Research Markets Contact News	George Arida - George joined Venture Investors in 2000 and is a Managing Director of Venture Investors LLC with a focus on the firm's healthcare practice. George serves on the Board of Directors of Zystor Therapeutics, Inc. and ProCertus BioPharm, Inc., and as a Board observer for Caden Biosciences, Celleration, Inc., and Chromatin, Inc. He is also a Founding Director of the Mid-America Healthcare Investors Network, an association of over forty regional venture capital firms active in early stage healthcare investing. Prior to joining Venture Investors, George served as the Chief Financial Officer for an investment advisory and financial brokerage firm in Chicago. Prior to this, he spent five years at U.S. Filter Corporation in management and technical marketing positions, four years with Betz Laboratories in technical sales and field service management, and two years at Alar Engineering as a Process Engineer. George has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Business Administration degree with high honors from the University of Chicago.