Sean Doherty

Founder & Former T1D Fund Board Chair

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Sean Doherty is the Founder of the T1D Fund and former Chair of the Fund Board until 2023. He led the concept-creation, design, and capital raising of the Fund from 2015 to 2023. We are incredibly grateful for his vision, energy, and passion that created the foundation of what the Fund is today.

Sean is currently a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and the President of T1D Action, in both roles focusing on systemically improving care for people living with T1D and other chronic diseases. He is a former Partner at Bain Capital, LP, a private global investment firm. Earlier in his career he worked at Ropes & Gray LLP and was a law clerk to a federal district judge in Boston. He was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, in which he served on a Middle East Force frigate from 1990-94. He received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. magna cum laude in Government from Harvard College.

Sean and his wife, Suzy, have been involved with JDRF (now Breakthrough T1D) and other type 1 diabetes causes since 2002, when their son Finn was diagnosed with T1D at the age of 2. In addition to his role at the Fund, Sean served on the JDRF International Board and its Executive Committee from 2016 to 2019 following more than a decade of service on the JDRF New England Chapter Board, including two years as its President.