James Rogers

Chief Business Development Officer • Mayo Clinic

James (Jim) A. Rogers III serves as chief business development officer for Mayo Clinic’s Department of Business Development and senior administrator for Generative AI. Mr. Rogers leads Mayo Clinic’s Department of Business Development (BD) – which is responsible for licensing Mayo Clinic’s intellectual property and partnering with industry. BD activities include invention patenting, technology licensing and commercialization, start-up formation, strategic collaborations, venture investing and acquisitions. Mr. Rogers facilitates the group’s charge of proactively enabling Mayo Clinic’s strategic priorities and generating revenue to reinvest back into the three-shield mission of practice, education, and research. Mr. Rogers previously served as interim senior administrator for Strategy, overseeing strategy development, strategic intelligence, planning, internal consulting, and executive support across Mayo Clinic. 

Mr. Rogers is secretary of the Business Development Committee for the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees and is on the board of Mayo Clinic Collaborative Services, Inc., Mayo Clinic’s billion-dollar diagnostic laboratory company. He also serves on the Mayo Clinic Administrative Team, Mayo Clinic Administrative Team Executive Committee, Mayo Clinic Shared Services, the investment committee of Mayo Clinic’s $100M Venture and Growth Fund, and previously the Mayo Clinic Administrative Operations Coordinating Group. He has also served on several external boards including Medical Alley Association, Rochester Area Economic Development, Inc., Lourdes Foundation and Merchants Bank. 

Before joining Mayo Clinic, Mr. Rogers worked at Dorsey & Whitney, LLP and 3M Company. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa and University of Iowa College of Law where he earned his B.S. in biology and his J.D. with high distinction.