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A world-renowned physician and entrepreneur, Lindsay Rosenwald has served the medical profession for over 30 years. In that time, Lindsay Rosenwald has achieved success in a wide array of services including venture capital, direct investing, asset management and investment banking within the field of life sciences and biotechnology. Most notably, Lindsay Rosenwald has been a significant creator of development-stage biotechnology companies. Throughout his professional career, Lindsay Rosenwald has overseen the development of more than 100 licensed clinical-stage medicines. A number of these drugs have earned approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and foreign countries. One medicine in particular was to treat acute promyelocytic leukemia, which has since cured several thousands of incurable patients in the past decade. Under the guidance of Lindsay Rosenwald, the medicine has marked a dramatic shift in how the disease will be treated in the future. Another cancer medicine formulated under the leadership of Lindsay Rosenwald is a prostate cancer drug called abiraterone acetate. The company led by Lindsay Rosenwald that developed this drug became the first of its kind to be acquired for around $1 billion after the completion of just a single phase 2 study when Johnson & Johnson took ownership of the company in a short-term merger. Other drugs approved during the career of Lindsay Rosenwald include drugs approved for treatment of diseases such as schizophrenia, influenza, fibromyalgia, infant respiratory distress syndrome, and obesity. After graduating from southeast Pennsylvania’s Abington Senior High School in 1973, Lindsay Rosenwald matriculated at Pennsylvania State University. There, Lindsay Rosenwald received a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics, graduating a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, an international honor society.

Robert M. Davis is corporate vice president and president of Baxter's Medical Products business. In this position, Davis oversees a range of products used in the delivery of fluids and drugs to patients, and in the treatment of end-stage kidney disease. Davis took on his current role in October 2010. Prior to this role, Davis served as corporate vice president and president of Baxter's Renal business. He served as corporate vice president and chief financial officer from 2006 through May 2010, and as treasurer from 2004 through 2006. Davis joined Baxter as treasurer in November 2004 from Eli Lilly and Company, where he served in numerous positions of increasing responsibility over 14 years. Davis currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Rush University Medical Center and also serves as a member of the Finance Committee. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of AdvaMed.

Kurt Graves is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Intarcia. Prior to joining Intarcia, Mr. Graves was EVP, Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Corporate and Strategic Development at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Prior to his tenure at Vertex, he spent nearly 10 years at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, most recently as Global Head of the General Medicines Business & Chief Marketing Officer for the Pharmaceuticals division. Mr. Graves also previously held several commercial and general management positions at Merck and Astra Merck/Astra Pharmaceuticals, where he spent most of his time leading the GI Business Unit responsible for Prilosec and Nexium. Mr. Graves earned his B.S. in biology from Hillsdale College and has attended executive leadership programs at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Management and University of Michigan.

CEO of Spero Therapeutics, a public, clinical stage company developing a pipeline of therapeutics treating large unmet needs in infectious disease. Co-founder of nine biotech startups developing novel platforms and therapies, including Spero Therapeutics (Nasdaq:SPRO), Synlogic (Nasdaq: SYBX), and Arteaus Therapeutics (Acquired by Eli Lilly, Emgality FDA approved by Eli Lilly). Advisor at Atlas Venture, an early stage life sciences and technology venture capital firm. Some more on my perspective at http://lifescivc.com/2014/04/building-great-startup-teams-in-biotech-a-three-hour-tour, http://lifescivc.com/2014/07/growing-beyond-the-startup-phase-lessons-learned, and at https://timmermanreport.com/2018/08/zigging-when-others-zag-speros-ankit-mahadevia-on-the-antibiotic-opportunity.