David Greenwald, Ph.D.

David Greenwald, Ph.D., is a Managing Director on the Public Structured Finance team. Dr. Greenwald joined the Firm in 2018 as Vice President, Business Development before transitioning to his current role in 2025. Prior to joining Deerfield, Dr. Greenwald was the Director of Business Development at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. He was a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Relay Technology Management, Inc. and a co-inventor of the Relay Innovation Engine software platform. After Relay was acquired by Decision Resources Group, Dr. Greenwald served as the Director of Client Solutions at Decision Resources Group. Before that, he was an Associate Investigator at the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, MD, where he worked on developing diagnostic devices for dengue fever. Dr. Greenwald was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellow while earning a B.S. in Cellular Biology and Molecular Genetics from the University of Maryland, College Park and earned his Ph.D. in Genetics from Tufts University.

Dave enjoys ocean restoration philanthropy, entrepreneurship, reading, golf, and sailing.