Board of Directors
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Georg Nebgen, PhD
Chairman
Dr. Georg Nebgen is a co-founder and Managing General Partner of NGN Capital. He joined from MPM Capital where he had previously been a Principal at MPM Capital in Boston and Managing Director of MPM Capital GmbH. Prior to this, Dr. Nebgen was with Schering-Plough Corporation, as Managed Care Area Manager for New England. Prior to this, Dr. Nebgen had served in Schering-Plough's subsidiary in Switzerland as Business Unit Head, Oncology & Biotech and Business Unit Head, Cardiovascular & CNS. He obtained his doctorate in Pharmaceutical Technology Sciences from the University of Bonn, Germany and his executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He served as the President of the German-American Business Council in Boston. Dr. Nebgen currently serves on the Board of Directors of Javelin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: JAV), Artisan Pharma, Inc., KIKA Medical, Inc., and Tigris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He also serves as a Director for ACT Biotech, Valtech Cardio and Vivaldi Biosciences.
Joseph Boystak
Director
Mr. Boystak has been a director of Exosome Diagnostics since May 2009 and serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is President and CEO of Brightwaters Capital, LLC, a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles that focuses on life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, health care and nanotechnology. He also serves as Managing Director and CEO of Hudson | Brightwaters, a boutique merchant bank. Previously, Boystak spent more than 20 years as an investment banker with several major Wall Street firms and completed over $15 billion of financing and advisory transactions. He most recently served as founding Managing Director of the Global Life Science Group at Jefferies & Co. He is currently Co-Founder and Chairman of NanoPacific Holdings, Inc. and is Co-Founder and Managing Member of Bruin Biometrics, LLC. He also serves on the Health Advisory Board at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is a member of the UCLA Foundation Board of Governors. Mr. Boystak received his B.A. from Boston University and Master of Health Science from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Peter Johann, PhD
Director
Dr. Johann is a Managing General Partner of NGN Capital. He joined NGN Capital from Boehringer Ingelheim, where he was the Division Head of Corporate Development responsible for strategic planning, strategic projects, M&A, business development and licensing. Prior to this, Mr. Johann has served at F. Hoffmann-La Roche as Global Business Leader where he led global business teams and was responsible for global marketing of oncology products as well as evaluation of pipeline products from internal and external sources. Dr. Johann joined Roche from Boehringer Mannheim, where he was Head of Business Development and Marketing Molecular Medicine. Dr. Johann obtained his PhD from the Technical University Munich. Dr. Johann holds Board seats with Cerapedics (Observer), Exosome, Horizon Pharma (after the Nitec merger), Micromet, Resverlogix, Vivaldi Biosciences and held Board and Observer seats at Jerini and Santhera respectively.
James R. McCullough
Director
Mr. McCullough is one of our founders and has been Chief Executive Officer since inception in May of 2008. From March of 2001 to October of 2006, Mr. McCullough was the Chief Executive Officer of AusAm Biotechnologies, Inc., a biotechnology company developing diagnostics to identify kidney and cardiovascular diseases. At AusAm, Mr. McCullough oversaw commercial development, FDA clearance, and marketing and distribution for Accumin, a diagnostic for detection of patients at risk for early-stage kidney and cardiovascular disease. He received his BA from Boston University in 1990, and his MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business in 1995.
Geert-Jan Mulder, MD
Director
Geert-Jan Mulder, General Partner at Forbion Capital Partners (formerly ABN AMRO Capital Life Sciences), is an MD and accredited Pharmaceutical Physician. Before joining the pharmaceutical industry, he gained his clinical experience at the University Medical Center of Utrecht (UMC) in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He then joined Searle (now Pfizer) as Medical Advisor in the field of arthritis and pain (COX-2 technology) and worked on the local and European positioning of celecoxib. After working at Searle, he joined Byk Gulden (now Nycomed) where his department was responsible for clinical development in The Netherlands dealing with the design and execution of numerous corporate clinical trials in the fields of Gastroenterology, Respiratory (asthma and COPD), Intensive Care Medicine and Imaging. Dr. Mulder currently serves on a number of boards and assists portfolio companies in their clinical development programs and overall strategy.