In 2020 we launched a brand new collection titled “5 Questions With…” in an effort to highlight people from throughout the BioHealth Capital Area and past. Offering this platform has allowed us to assist share the tales of trade friends and present that there isn’t a single “proper” technique to turning into an trade success.
Because the 12 months wraps up and we stay up for 2021, we’re additionally trying again to the 30 company we’ve featured on this collection. From CFOs to Scientists, Veterans to Enterprise Capitalists, Firm Founders to Management who just lately joined their present corporations, and everybody inbetween.
If you happen to assume you’d be a very good visitor for our “5 Questions With…” collection, or need to recommend any person – please tell us!
Electronic mail Andy Eckert to get the method began: andy(at)biobuzz.io
John Trainer, CFO, NexImmune, Inc.
John has over 20 years of expertise in numerous monetary, transactional, strategic, and business roles within the biopharma trade. His most up-to-date roles earlier than becoming a member of NexImmune have been Vice President and Head of Partnering & Technique for MedImmune, and Vice President, Company Growth for AstraZeneca. Mr. Coach obtained his MBA from Harvard Enterprise Faculty, his AB from Harvard Faculty, and lives together with his household (and canine) in McLean.
Byung Ha Lee, Director, R&D at NeoImmuneTech, Inc.
Byung Ha Lee is the Director, R&D at NeoImmuneTech, Inc. With levels from Korea College, and his Ph.D. in Medical Sciences-immunology and microbiology from the College of Florida Faculty of Medication. He has in depth trade expertise over 15 years in translational analysis, enterprise improvement, area KOL interplay, main strategic and analysis planning of drug improvement. Byung Ha completed his postdoctoral coaching on the NIAID at NIH.
Jennifer Butler, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Innate Pharma U.S.
Jennifer Butler was appointed Government Vice President and Normal Supervisor of Innate Pharma US Inc. in March 2019. Previous to her appointment, Ms. Butler served as Chief Enterprise Officer, Chief Business Officer, and Head of US operations, accountable for world enterprise improvement and business technique at Tessa Therapeutics, a clinical-stage oncology firm. She beforehand served for greater than 10 years in numerous business and technique roles with growing duty at AstraZeneca/MedImmune throughout a number of therapeutic areas. Ms. Butler additionally beforehand labored in strategic healthcare consulting and as an analyst in Fairness Capital Markets at Merrill Lynch. Ms. Butler has greater than 20 years of strategic advertising and marketing and business management experience together with basic administration expertise.
Stephanie Duatschek, Biopharma Executive Management Consultant
Stephanie has over 20 years of expertise in numerous strategic and operational roles spanning scientific improvement, portfolio administration, and business operations within the biopharma trade. She has spent the final 6 years as a advisor partnering with C-suite executives primarily within the business house. Previous to launching her consulting enterprise, Stephanie was Vice President of Business Operations for MedImmune. She is Adjunct College at Georgetown College the place she lectures on Commercialization Technique. Stephanie obtained her MBA from The Fuqua Faculty of Enterprise and lives along with her household in Arlington.
Dan Gincel, Ph.D., Executive Director, MD Stem Cell Research Fund at TEDCO
In his twin roles as Vice President for College Partnerships on the Maryland Know-how Growth Company (TEDCO) and Government Director of the Maryland Stem Cell Analysis Fund (MSCRF), Dr. Gincel oversees applications on college analysis, tech switch, commercialization, and innovation that contribute to Maryland’s financial progress. His expertise in and outdoors of the laboratory has made him a confirmed chief and champion for college analysis and improvement. He’s devoted to growing analysis capability for Maryland scientists, supporting cutting-edge expertise improvement, and in the end, creating cures for debilitating ailments. Dan obtained his BS and Ph.D. in biochemistry and neuroscience from the Ben-Gurion College, Israel, and his postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins College.
Nikki Hastings, Executive Director, CvilleBioHub
Nikki Hastings is the chief director of CvilleBioHub in Charlottesville, Virginia working to strengthen and develop the regional biotechnology trade ecosystem. Over the previous decade, she has contributed to the expansion of early-stage corporations together with HemoShear Therapeutics and Contraline by main operational and progress wants and supporting the interpretation of analysis ideas into business viability. Nikki holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the College of Virginia and a B.S. from North Carolina State College in the identical area.
Aaron Vernon, VP of Engineering & Supply Chain, Autolus
Aaron is a passionate builder with over 20 years of expertise in provide chain administration, manufacturing, enterprise course of improvement, organizational transformation, and facility design/development at Johnson & Johnson, MedImmune, AstraZeneca, Sucampo, and Autolus. He’s at present Vice President of Engineering & Provide Chain at Autolus, Inc, the place he and his group are accountable for constructing and orchestrating Autolus’ world provide community.
Alison Demarest, Principal, Meridian BioGroup
Alison Demarest has greater than 30 years of expertise in biotechnology and FDA-regulated industries below GMP and GLP in each consulting and working corporations, together with contract manufacturing and contract testing. She is the co-founder of Meridian BioGroup, a compliance, regulatory and validation service-provider to the Maryland biopharm group in its 14th 12 months.
Shruti Abbato, EVP, Business Development, CARMA Cellular Therapies at MaxCyte, Inc.
Shruti has 20 years of enterprise improvement expertise within the biotechnology trade. She is at present accountable for constructing and rising MaxCyte’s CARMA Cell Therapies enterprise. Earlier than MaxCyte, she labored with Celdara Medical, Millendo, Medigene, Deciphera, and Human Genome Sciences. Shruti holds an MBA from the College of Pittsburgh and a BS in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry from the College of Maryland.
Sara Nayeem, M.D., a Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Sara Nayeem, M.D. is a Companion at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a big diversified enterprise capital agency. Sara joined NEA’s healthcare group in 2009 and focuses on investments in biopharmaceutical corporations. She serves on the boards of Centrexion, Complexa, Cydan, Imara (IMRA), Tiburio, and a stealth focused oncology firm.
Cara Felish, VP, Commercial Operations, Aurinia Pharmaceuticals
Sara Nayeem, M.D. is a Companion at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a big diversified enterprise capital agency. Sara joined NEA’s healthcare group in 2009 and focuses on investments in biopharmaceutical corporations. She serves on the boards of Centrexion, Complexa, Cydan, Imara (IMRA), Tiburio, and a stealth focused oncology firm.
Jamie Lacey-Moreira, Principal and Founder, PressComm PR, LLC
Jamie Lacey-Moreira has 25 years of expertise offering devoted communications service to commerce associations and life science corporations from start-up by means of commercialization. She established PressComm PR, LLC in 2009 and likewise serves as a part of the Sam Brown Inc. strategic communications group. Earlier than beginning PressComm, she spent practically seven years constructing the general public relations division at MedImmune (now the biologics division of AstraZeneca). Beforehand, she managed communications features at Celera Genomics and Novartis Company in addition to the Nationwide Council of Farmer Cooperatives and the American Affiliation of Motor Car Directors.
Jeff Galvin, CEO, and Founder of American Gene Technologies™
Jeff Galvin is the CEO and Founding father of American Gene Applied sciences™ (AGT). He earned his BA diploma in Economics from Harvard in 1981 and has greater than 30 years of enterprise and entrepreneurial expertise together with founder or government positions at a wide range of Silicon Valley startups. A number of of his corporations have been taken public and/or bought to public corporations, together with one within the medical-technology area that was bought to Varian, the main maker of linear accelerators utilized in most cancers remedy. Following his startup expertise, he retired to change into an Angel Investor in actual property and excessive tech. He got here out of retirement to discovered and fund AGT after assembly Roscoe Brady at NIH.
Katy Strei EVP, Human Resources/Global Communications & Public Affairs and Chief Human Resources Officer, Emergent BioSolutions
Ms. Strei joined Emergent BioSolutions in 2016 and has served as government vice chairman, human sources and chief human sources officer since April 2017. She beforehand served as senior vice chairman and chief human sources officer from January 2016 to March 2017. Previous to becoming a member of Emergent, Ms. Strei was an unbiased advisor, specializing in management and group improvement from February 2014 to January 2016.
Judy Costello, Managing Director of Economic Development for BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI)
Judy Costello is Managing Director of Financial Growth for BioHealth Innovation, Inc. (BHI). Previous to becoming a member of BHI, she served as Director of the Maryland Division of Commerce’s Workplace of BioHealth and Life Sciences and as Deputy Director of the division’s BioMaryland Heart. In these positions, she has labored to develop the area’s biohealth cluster by supporting trade recruitment and retention, commercialization, workforce, non-dilutive and dilutive fundraising, worldwide tender touchdown, partnership, and promotion actions. She beforehand served as Government Director of the Enterprise Alliance for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Jacob Greenwood, Director of Business Development in CRB’s Maryland Office
Jacob Greenwood is the Director of Enterprise Growth in CRB’s Maryland workplace. Born and raised in Northeast Baltimore Metropolis, he’s a life-long Marylander dedicated to seeing his state prosper. He earned a BA in Biology in 2008 from Goucher Faculty and has spent the final 12 years working within the Life Sciences trade. Throughout that point, he has transitioned from the benchtop to the gross sales workplace. He’s keen about networking and is doing his half to enhance the BioHealth Capital Area’s ecosystem.
Ulyana Desiderio, Director of BioHealth and Life Sciences in the Maryland Department of Commerce
Ulyana Desiderio joined the Maryland Division of Commerce in April 2020 as Director of BioHealth and Life Sciences. She leads efforts that help the expansion of Maryland’s life sciences group, together with job creation, capital funding, and new enterprise formation. Previous to becoming a member of Commerce, Ulyana served as Chief Scientific Officer for the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the most important worldwide medical affiliation devoted to blood ailments. In her position, she developed and carried out methods that superior organizational scientific priorities in addition to federal insurance policies that have an effect on basic analysis and the apply of drugs. Previous to becoming a member of ASH, Ulyana accomplished the Christine Mirzayan Science and Know-how Coverage Graduate Fellowship on the Nationwide Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Inhabitants, the place she was concerned in a mission on gathering, storing, and defending organic samples and knowledge. Ulyana holds B.S. levels in Organic Sciences and Chemistry from Drexel College and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Faculty of Public Well being.
Andrew Davis, Vice President at Scheer Partners
Andrew Davis is Vice President at Scheer Companions and helps run the scientific actual property apply. Andrew lives in Maryland however assists scientific corporations to establish, negotiate, and construct house within the BioHealth Capital Area, Philadelphia, Higher Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.
Tammi Thomas, Vice President, Marketing & Communications at TEDCO
Tammi Thomas leads the event of TEDCO’s advertising and marketing and communications technique whereas contributing to the strategic operations and imaginative and prescient of the group. Her results-oriented strategy, proven-track report of constructing lasting relationships, and driving core enterprise aims by means of focused advertising and marketing methods are instrumental as she stewards the group by means of thrilling progress to develop help for technology-based companies that thrive in Maryland and past.
Nick Droste, Emergent BioSolutions Postfill Manufacturing Supervisor
Nick Droste is a part of the postfill manufacturing group on the Emergent BioSolutions Baltimore Camden website, the place he leads visible inspection operations for Emergent’s rising Contract Growth Manufacturing and Group (CDMO) efforts and in help of their new partnership with the Biomedical Superior Analysis and Growth Authority (BARDA) COVID-19 vaccine improvement operations. On the Camden website, he has spearheaded coaching initiatives and steady enchancment improvements to assist set up Camden as a visible inspection and packaging heart of excellence.
Mike O’Mara, VP of Industrial Business Services, Miltenyi Biotec
Mike O’Mara has greater than 27 years of expertise in biopharmaceutical contract manufacturing encompassing microbial, mammalian, and cell/Gene remedy manufacturing processes starting from Preclinical/Part I by means of Business. Previous to Miltenyi Biotec, Mike labored at Cytovance Biologics as Sr VP of Manufacturing Operations, DynPort Vaccine Company as Senior Director of Manufacturing, and was TissueGene’s Vice President of Manufacturing. Mike labored for Lonza Biologics for 18 years in a number of operations and manufacturing positions.
Amy Adams, Executive Director of the Institute for Biohealth Innovation at George Mason University
As Government Director of the Institute for Biohealth Innovation at George Mason College, Amy Adams is accountable for nurturing and advancing biohealth analysis and innovation pursuits of greater than 250 school and hundreds of scholars who symbolize a broad vary of educational disciplines. Her position consists of fostering partnerships with trade, healthcare, authorities, and tutorial companions.
Brian Hahn, Senior Vice President & CFO, GlycoMimetics
Mr. Hahn has greater than 15 years of senior monetary and operations expertise in rising organizations. He joined GlycoMimetics in 2010. Beforehand, Mr. Hahn served as government director of finance at Middlebrook Prescription drugs (previously Advancis Pharmaceutical), a publicly-traded specialty pharmaceutical firm. At the moment, Mr. Hahn serves as co-chairman of the BIO Finance and Tax Committee, as a co-chairman of the Steering Committee of the Washington, DC chapter of the Affiliation for Bio Monetary Officers (ABFO), and likewise serves on the Securities and Alternate Commissions’ Advisory Committee on Small and Rising Corporations. He obtained a B.B.A. in Accounting from Shenandoah College and an M.B.A. from the College of Maryland.
Martha Schoonmaker, Executive Director, Pinkney Innovation Complex for Science and Technology at Montgomery College (PIC MC)
Martha Schoonmaker is the primary Government Director for the PIC MC Basis, the entity that develops, manages, and markets the Germantown campus on behalf of Montgomery Faculty for firm places. PIC MC is an built-in tutorial, enterprise, and analysis campus and is the one group school with a hospital, Holy Cross Germantown Hospital, situated because the anchor resident accomplice. Ms. Schoonmaker manages contracts, leases, and partnerships with current resident companions, together with Holy Cross Germantown Hospital, and is accountable for the event of company and commerce affiliation partnerships that develop internship, studying, and profession alternatives for college students inside PIC MC.
John Newby, CEO, Virginia Bio
John Newby is the CEO at Virginia Bio, the statewide non-profit commerce affiliation for the life science trade. Roughly 300 corporations spanning biopharmaceuticals, medical units, med tech, diagnostics, digital well being, bioinformatics, agriculture, and industrial bio and associated fields are primarily based in Virginia, primarily clustered round analysis universities and medical establishments. Virginia Bio is the only real state affiliate and works carefully with key nationwide trade organizations BIO, AdvaMed, MDMA, PhRMA and We Work for Well being.
Ken Malone, Co-Founder, and Principal, Early Charm Ventures, LLC.
Ken Malone is a co-founder of Early Attraction Ventures, a enterprise studio based in 2012 in Baltimore (Attraction Metropolis) that converts science to enterprise. Early Attraction makes a speciality of taking good scientific discoveries made at universities and turning them into corporations centered on progress. They don’t chase fast exits. They construct corporations that create sustainable worth.
Chad Schneider, PE, MSE, President & Founder of Root3 Labs
Mr. Schneider is a mechanical design engineer with over 20 years of engineering expertise within the design of advanced electromechanical prototypes and merchandise. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering with Honors from the College of Maryland, Faculty Park, and an MSE in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins College with a concentrate on haptics and medical robotics. In 2012, he based Root3 Labs to concentrate on sensible R&D for the medical machine and protection industries. He’s skilled working with startups, producers, and State and Federal Authorities purchasers, named on 9 patents, a licensed sUAV Business Pilot, and a duly licensed skilled engineer by the State of Maryland.
Kurt Elam, Senior Director, Sales & Marketing for LabOwl
Kurt Elam joined ACC/Lab Owl in 2017 with 20+ years of specialty biopharmaceutical expertise, centered totally on oncology, infectious illness, and significant care/ICU drugs. He has overseen and managed the profitable launch of over 16 new FDA permitted merchandise/compounds or new indications, and labored to realize formulary approval in managed care organizations, thereby bettering entry for sufferers. Previous to becoming a member of Lab Owl, Kurt labored with quite a lot of biopharma corporations, together with Schering‐Plough, Astra‐Zeneca, EMD Serono, Amylin, and Actelion. He has a BA diploma from the College of Virginia.
Neil Sheppard, Immunologist, University of Pennsylvania
Neil Sheppard is an Immunologist educated within the UK on the Universities of Bristol and Oxford. He has over 18 years’ expertise within the fields of vaccines and immunotherapies, together with over a dozen years main drug discovery and improvement applications in Massive Pharma and Biotech. Neil’s experience attracts on time within the UK, Australia, and each the East & West Coasts of the USA. Since 2015, Neil has centered solely on CAR and TCR remedy for most cancers, throughout which era he has led multidisciplinary groups and brought belongings into the clinic at GSK and Tmunity. In 2019 Neil returned to academia to take up a task on the UPenn Heart for Mobile Immunotherapies.
Stephen M. Jackson, Staff Scientist – Immunology, ABL, Inc.
“Born and raised in gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, I used to be surrounded by compassionate and risk-taking people who acknowledged and fertilized my love, expertise, and tutorial prowess. Collectively my tribe, for it takes one to lift one, helped present me with unimaginable alternatives to excel and proceed the battle for an considerable life by means of well being, social consciousness, and creative expression. I, a Man who can be Daring and Black, am a product of their braveness, compassion, endurance, imaginative and prescient, and love – Stephen M. Jackson, PhD”
Brian Darmody, CEO, Association of University Research Parks
Brian Darmody is CEO of AURP, a worldwide nonprofit representing analysis parks and innovation districts sponsored by universities, federal labs, communities, hospitals, and different establishments within the US and 12 different nations. Beforehand Darmody served in a wide range of roles on the College of Maryland Faculty Park, together with within the President’s Workplace of Authorized Affairs, Workplace of Authorities Relations, Workplace of Analysis and Growth, Workplace of College Relations, and Heart for Utilized Coverage Research. Earlier than his work at UMD, Darmody labored on the US Well being Care Financing Fee, the US Home of Representatives, and the Maryland Home of Delegates.
Andy has labored with BioBuzz for the final decade to assist unfold the phrase of the BioHealth Capital Area even earlier than it was branded with that title. His background consists of years at MedImmune supporting the Business Operations Group earlier than turning into a BioHealth Nomad working with numerous purchasers in Operations, Communications and Strategic Providers.
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