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Short bio
Rory Riggs is an inventor, executive, and investor who applies one system, the Locus Model, across biotechnology, finance, and economics.
Long bio
Rory Riggs is an inventor, executive, and investor who applies one system, the Locus Model, across biotechnology, finance, and economics. Mr. Riggs is Executive Chairman of Syntax Data, which has built a foundational coordinate-based information infrastructure for finance and economic data based on his patented Locus Model and Functional Information System (FIS). As Chairman and founder of Royalty Pharma, he helped create the pharmaceutical royalty asset class. He was also a founder or early-stage investor in SUGEN, BioMatrix, FibroGen, Cibus, and Intra-Cellular Therapies, and served as a director of each. He was previously a Managing Director at PaineWebber and CEO of RF&P, a real estate investment company owned by the Virginia State Retirement System. He is a director of the Feinstein Institute, the research arm of Northwell, and of the New York Genome Center. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia University.
Fast facts
- Executive Chairman and Founder, Syntax Data
- Founder and Chairman, Royalty Pharma plc — grown from a $60 million start in 1996 to $26 billion at 2026
- Chairman of the Board, Cibus Inc. — Fast Company’s #2 Most Innovative Agriculture Company of 2024
- 20 granted U.S. patents on the Locus Model and Functional Information System
- Author, Systems Economics: The Parts and Processes of Economic Systems (294 pages, 3rd edition, 2019)
- Graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia University
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