Management Team

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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Robert Lee PhD, Director of Preclinical Development
Education and Background
  • Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, Ohio State University
  • >20 years of experience in preclinical therapeutic development
  • Prior Director of Preclinical Development for the RNAi therapeutics company, Microlin
Expertise
  • Targeted drug delivery systems based on nanoparticles, including miR-targeting lipid nanoparticles and targeted chemotherapeutic drug formulations and bioconjugates for therapy of solid tumors, leukemias, diabetic wounds, and other diseases.
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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
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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

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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
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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
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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

Scientific Advisors

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Prof. Ivana Pibiri Department of Chemistry, University of Palermo
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Prof. Manuel Ascano Vanderbilt University Medical School
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Prof. Sudipto Mukherjee MD, Director of Rare Cancers and Blood Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
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Dr. Wajahat Mehal Yale School of Medicine Yale University
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Prof. Mousa Shamonki MD, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles