Ross Barrett | Managing Partner,
Focus Fund GP, LLC and Big Ventures Management, LLC

Ross is the Managing General Partner of the Cancer Focus Fund, LP, a venture capital partnership financing Phase I/II oncology clinical trials in partnership with MD Anderson Cancer Center, Ochsner Health System New Orleans, and the LSU Feist-Weiller Cancer Center.

Previously, he managed healthcare-related venture capital funds, including Louisiana Ventures LP, Themelios Ventures LP, and TransBio Ventures LP.

He is co-founder and Executive Chairman of the software and data analytics company Lagniappe Labs, LLC, and is active in the development of its Prime Unicorn Index, a market-cap-weighted index tracking the performance of U.S.-based venture-backed companies.

He has advised and invested in more than twenty early-stage companies, is a board member of Louisiana State Committee of 100, trustee of Centenary College of Louisiana. He was a visiting professor for innovation and entrepreneurship at Louisiana Tech University.

His board service includes A28 Therapeutics, Esperance Pharmaceuticals, Lagniappe Labs LLC and Jenrin Discoveries. 

Ross earned his Bachelor’s in Political Science from Southern Methodist University, a Juris Doctor from Louisiana State University School of Law, as well as an LL.M. in taxation from New York University of Law.