Adam H. Rogers 92C 96M

Chief Executive Officer and Board Chair
NervGen Pharma Corp., LLC
Boca Raton, Florida

Adam Rogers 92C 96M is the chief executive officer and board chair of NervGen Pharma Corp., LLC. He co-founded Hemera Biosciences, a clinical stage gene therapy company focused on dry age-related macular degeneration, in 2010. In 2017, he became CEO of Hemera and led the company through the development of its lead program, HMR59 (now JNJ-1887), until its acquisition by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, in December 2020.

Rogers also serves on the board of One Family, the Boston-based nonprofit, and is a board member of the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation.

Rogers graduated from Emory College in 1992 and Emory School of Medicine in 1996. He and his wife, Stephanie 92C, reside in Boca Raton, Florida.

He was elected trustee in 2012.