Management Team

Raj Chakrabarti
PhD, Founder, Chairman and CEO
Education and Experience
- AB Harvard
- PhD Princeton
- President, PMC Group International
- Launched PMC’s pharmaceutical manufacturing & CRO division
- Founder, Chakrabarti Advanced Technology
- Formerly Prof. of Chemical Engineering and Faculty, Program in Computational Science and Engineering, Purdue University (top 10 global engineering university)
- Prof. of Chemical Engineering and Faculty, Center for Advanced Process Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University (top 6 global engineering university)
Awards and Honors
- Winner, Intel International Science and Engineering Competition (one of two in the world)
- USA Today All-Academic First Team (one of 20 in the nation)
- American Academy of Achievement Golden Eagle Award for the Nation’s Most Promising Exemplars of Achievement (one of 6 in the nation)
- Invited speaker at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biophysics
- Lead inventor of biotechnology patents commercialized by/with industry leaders Celera Genomics, New England Biolabs, Abbott, Quest Diagnostics, which generate $40M annual revenue (top 0.1% of revenue generating patents at Princeton University).
Expertise
- Process Systems Engineering: Performance optimization of chemical processes and operations
- Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology

Thomas Delacroix
PhD, Director of R&D, PMC Isochem
Education and Experience
- PhD Organic Chemistry, Paris University - Chemical Engineer, ESCOM
- Former Head of R&D Process Development - Minakem
- R&D Senior Manager - PMC Isochem
Expertise
- Over 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical chemistry and R&D

Gauthier Errasti
PhD, Head of CPEDD, PMC Isochem
Education and Experience
- PhD, Paris Descartes University, France. ESPCI Paris - PSL Alumni
- Formerly Head of MedChem Laboratory at Roowin (French CRO)
- Formerly Head of Process development - R&D Department at PMC Isochem
Expertise
- Over 10 years in Pharma R&D (Medicinal Chemistry, Process development, Biotechnologies, high throughput drug discovery technologies)

Peng Yue
PhD, Director of Asset Acquisitions
Education and Experience
- Ph.D. of Cell and Molecular Biology. Art and Science School, University of Pennsylvania
- Post Doctoral Fellow. University of Pennsylvania
- Scientific Fellow. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring Campus, Maryland
- Scientific Fellow. Medical School of University of Pennsylvania
- Head Scientist. Biologen Biotech LTD.
- Principal Scientist. Wuxi Biologics
Expertise
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology
- Biochemistry
- Immunology

Kalpana Ghoshal
PhD, VP of Preclinical Development
Education and Experience
- Prof. of Cancer Biology, Ohio State Cancer Center
Expertise
- Over 30 years of experience in preclinical cancer therapeutic development

Gunnar Staaf
Director of Business Development
Background and Expertise
- Partner, CCD Partners
- CBO, Exvastat
- Formerly CEO of Avantium Pharmaceuticals and Crystallics
- Over 20 years of extensive commercial leadership experience in the Life Science sector

Anisha Ghosh
PhD, Co-Founder, Director of Portfolio
Education and Background
- PhD, London School of Economics
- Professor of Finance, McGill University (On Leave)
- Formerly Professor of Finance, Carnegie Mellon university
- Research cited in the 2014 Nobel prize lecture in economics
- Academic Director, Honors in Investment Management Program, McGill University, which manages Desautels Capital Management

Poornananda Sastry
PhD, Head of CMC
Education and Experience
- PhD Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India
- Experienced operational and leadership in the API industry who has successfully built high-performing teams and delivered a couple of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) Projects
Expertise
- Technical development of APIs
- Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Externalization
- Technical transfer
- CMC regulatory submission
- CMC project planning
- Risk identification and mitigation
Board of Directors

George Constantinides
PhD, BoD, CCM LLC
Education and Experience
- Leo Melamed Prof. of Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
- Past President, American Finance Association
- Trustee/Director of the DFA group of funds ($460B AUM)
- Member of the advisory board of FTSE Russell and the Cook County Illinois Investment Policy Committee.
Expertise
- Asset Pricing
- Portfolio Management
- Derivatives

Paritosh M. Chakrabarti
CEO & Chairman, PMC Group
Education and Experience
- Founded PMC Group in 1994
- Former Chief Technical Offer, Fortune 100 chemical company PPG; Director of 2500 scientists and engineers
- Arthur D Little Top 10 value creators in the corporate world
Expertise
- More than 20 yrs experience in private equity investment management
- More than 40 yrs experience in specialty chemicals innovation and operational management
- Technology investment: led PPG’s founding investment alongside J&J to launch the Scripps Research Institute

Raj Chakrabarti
PhD, Founder, Chairman and CEO
Education and Experience
- AB Harvard
- PhD Princeton
- President, PMC Group International
- Launched PMC’s pharmaceutical manufacturing & CRO division
- Founder, Chakrabarti Advanced Technology
- Formerly Prof. of Chemical Engineering and Faculty, Program in Computational Science and Engineering, Purdue University (top 10 global engineering university)
- Prof. of Chemical Engineering and Faculty, Center for Advanced Process Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University (top 6 global engineering university)
- Published with Prof. Richard Freisner, Columbia University, founder of $5.5B drug discovery company Schrodinger (NASDAQ: SDGR)
Awards and Honors
- Winner, Intel International Science and Engineering Competition (one of two in the world)
- USA Today All-Academic First Team (one of 20 in the nation)
- American Academy of Achievement Golden Eagle Award for the Nation’s Most Promising Exemplars of Achievement (one of 6 in the nation)
- Invited speaker and faculty candidate at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biophysics
- Royalty income from patents on biotechnology inventions alone exceeds previous salary as a Professor several fold
Expertise
- Process Systems Engineering: Performance optimization of chemical processes and operations
- Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology