Board of Directors

Mr. Michel J. Feldman, Chairman of the Board  

Areas of expertise: Corporate, financial, and healthcare law

  • Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • Board of Directors, Watson Pharmaceuticals
  • Life Trustee, Adler Planetarium
  • Advisory Board, The Association for Corporate Growth
  • Board of Directors - Chicago Chapter, The Entrepreneurship Institute
  • Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. (Law Review, Order of the Coif); Northwestern University, B.S., B.A.

 

 

 

Dr. Nelson L. Levy, Vice Chairman  

Areas of Expertise: Innovation in science, business and their interface; discovery, development and commercialization of science-based products

  • Chairman and CEO, CoreTechs Corporation
  • President, Fujisawa Pharmaceutical Co. (now Astellas) (former)
  • Vice President, Pharmaceutical Research, Abbott Laboratories (former)
  • Professor of Immunology and Neurology (with tenure), Duke University Medical Center (former)
  • Duke University, Ph.D., Immunology; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D.; Yale University, B.A., Biochemistry (Scholar of the House, summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa)

Dr. Samir Bhattacharyya, Member  

Areas of expertise: Product and therapy sales and marketing, global and US market development, pricing, reimbursement, health economics and outcomes research

  • World Wide Director of Market Access, DePuy Mitek, a Johnson & Johnson Company
  • Vice President, Covance (former)
  • Senior Director of Global Marketing, Baxter (former)
  • Associate Director, Amgen (former)
  • University of Arizona Pharmacy School, Ph.D., Pharmacoeconomics; Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, M.S., Economics

Dr. James J. Gillespie, Member  

Areas of expertise: Strategy and operations of global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry

  • President, National Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Association
  • President, National Hispanic Life Science Society
  • CEO, Co-Founder, & President, Chicago Life Science Consortium
  • Board of Directors and First Vice President, America-Israel Chamber of Commerce Chicago
  • Northwestern University, Ph.D., M.A.; Harvard University, J.D.; Princeton University, M.P.A.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S.; Carnegie Mellon University, Cert.

Mr. Sanjay Kadaveru, Co-Founder & Member  

Areas of expertise: Venture capital / private equity investments in the India US corridor

  • Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, Hetero Drugs, Ltd.
  • Founder and President, Action For India
  • Charter Member, The Indus Entrepreneurs
  • Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, B.Tech.

Dr. Linda McAllister, Member  

Areas of expertise: Interface of biotechnology, medicine, and technology

  • Chief Medical Officer and VP of R&D, PharmaJet, Inc.
  • Interim CEO, PharmaJet, Inc. (former)
  • VP of Diagnostics and Chief Medical Officer at Arbor Vita Corporation (former)
  • Director, Technology Management at Roche Diagnostics (former)
  • University of California, San Francisco - School of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency; Stanford University, M.D., Ph.D.; California Institute of Technology, B.S.

Dr. Andrea Small-Howard, Member  

Areas of expertise: Practical applications of biochemical information, cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, genetic engineering, immunology, and molecular diagnostics

  • Vice President, Scientific Oversight at Radient Pharmaceuticals Corporation Inc.
  • Board Member, Ceremax Investment Corp.
  • Director, Research, Development, Scientific Oversight, AMDL, Inc. (former)
  • Manager of Research & Development, AMDL, Inc. (former)
  • Queens Center for Biomedical Research, Postdoctoral Fellow; University of Southern California, Ph.D.; USC Marshall School of Business, M.B.A.; Occidental College, A.B. (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa)