Peter Corr, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Board

Dr. Corr, a pharmaceutical industry veteran of more than 26 years, will guide the company as it completes a private financing underway and advances its clinical programs using antimicrobial Bisphosphocins™ for the treatment of serious infections of the lungs, bladder, skin and other tissues, including those caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, yeast and fungi.

Dr. Corr, who until December 2006, served as Senior Vice President for Science and Technology of Pfizer Inc. and led worldwide pharmaceutical research and development for Pfizer, previously served as Executive Vice President, Pfizer Global Research & Development and President, Worldwide Development. He also served as Senior Vice President, Discovery Research at Monsanto/Searle and then President of Pharmaceutical Research and Development at Warner Lambert/Parke Davis.

Dr. Corr is Co-Founder and Managing General Partner of Auven Therapeutics Management LLLP. and was Chairman of the Board of Directors for ADC Therapeutics, S.A., founded by Auven, from its inception in 2011 through the completion of its upsized $267 million initial public offering in May 2020. Dr. Corr is Founder and Chairman of the Board of Imvax Inc., a research and development company focused on cancer with an initial emphasis on glioblastoma and other solid tumors.

In addition, Dr. Corr has served as Chairman of the Science & Regulatory Executive Committee of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA); Chairman of the PhRMA Foundation Board of Directors; and Chairman of the Hever Group for six years, representing Chief Scientific Officers (CSO’s) across the European and U.S. based pharmaceutical industry. He is a former Governor of the New York Academy of Sciences (and previous Chairman of the Board of Governors). Additionally, he was Chairman of the Board of the International Partnership for Microbiocides and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Critical Path Institute. He served as a founding member of the Board of Directors of Furiex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., until the sale of the company in 2014. He is a Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Patient Assist VI which provides medicines to indigent patients in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He currently serves on the National Council for Washington University School of Medicine.

Dr. Corr received his doctorate from Georgetown University School of Medicine and spent 18 years as a researcher in molecular biology and pharmacology at Washington University, St. Louis, ultimately becoming Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Biology. His research has been published in more than 160 scientific manuscripts. Dr. Corr is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

Leonard J. DeRoma
Director

Mr. DeRoma began his career in the 1970s at Citibank’s corporate finance department in strategic planning, private placements. and mergers and acquisitions. He helped pioneer one of the first strategic planning services for Citibank corporate finance clients. He then spent the next 20 years in senior positions in fixed-income trading for a several financial institutions, including Citibank, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Capital, and KeyBank-McDonald Investments, managing large components of their domestic and foreign fixed-income trading, sales, derivatives, research, underwritings, and foreign exchange businesses. He served as the President of Barclay’s U.S. securities business, was senior advisor to the U.S. Asset Liability Committee, and chaired the U.S. Credit and Risk Management Committee.

Mr. DeRoma returned to corporate finance, forming Wildwood Capital LLC, a small boutique advisory firm focused on strategic advice, mergers and acquisitions, and fund-raising for small and middle-market companies. He later was a founding partner of Invictus Consulting Group, an advisory company oriented towards the strategic needs of community banks. In addition, he has served as a director of several public and private companies and funds. He has also served on several industry boards and associations, including the Public Securities Association and the Bond Market Association. He is a member of Monk Street Partners, LLC, an intellectual property commercialization company and senior advisor to ProActive Health Services and to Trusted Networks, Inc. He has been a speaker at numerous conferences on credit, liquidity and markets in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Mr. DeRoma has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Charles F. Wright
Director

Mr. Wright has had a long and successful career as a businessman and investor. He is the Chairman of The Fall River Group, Inc. a manufacturing organization of foundries located in Wisconsin, He has been associated with Fall River for over 45 years. He serves on the board of Prolitec Inc. and on the advisory board of Total Multimedia, Incorporated. Mr. Wright is a partner and Chairman of Quaestus & Co. Inc., which is a venture capital and private equity firm. He received a BA in Speech from the University of South Florida and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Thomas Pfisterer
Director

Mr. Pfisterer has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Imvax Inc. since 2019. In addition, he serves on the Boards of Directors of several other companies, including biotech companies; ADC Therapeutics (NYSE: ADCT) (Epalinges, CH), InSphero AG (Schlieren, CH) and Sermonix Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Columbus, OH, US).

Mr. Pfisterer holds a senior management role at WILD Group Management AG, heading the Direct Investments activities of the WILD Family Investment Office since 2015. Mr. Pfisterer joined the Family Office following the sale of WILD Flavors GmbH, one of the world’s leading suppliers of natural ingredients to the food and beverage industry, for which he served as Head of Strategic Development, directing the company’s global M&A activities since October 2011.

Previously, Mr. Pfisterer worked in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley Bank AG in Frankfurt, focusing on M&A and capital market transactions for German healthcare clients.

Mr. Pfisterer holds a Master in Finance (MPhil) from Cambridge University, UK, as well as a Bachelor in Economics (B.A. HSG) and a Bachelor in Business Administration (B.A. HSG), both from the University of St. Gallen, CH.

Doug Manion, M.D., FRCP (C)
Director

Doug has 20 years’ experience in drug development. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer, President and Director, Aclaris Therapeutics. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President of Research and Development for Arena Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded (ARNA, NASDAQ) company focused on immunotherapeutic and cardiovascular disease. Until January 2021, he was CEO of Kleo Pharmaceuticals, a private biotech company spun out of Yale University that was acquired by Biohaven Holdings (BHVN, NYSE). Previously, he was the Senior Vice President and Head of Specialty Development, and Head of Japan and China R&D at Bristol Myers-Squibb (BMY.NYSE) until October 2016. He had leadership roles at BMS overseeing various therapeutic areas including virology, immunoscience, neurology, cardiology, metabolic disease, s, genetically defined diseases, and fibrosis since joining in 2005. From 2001 to 2005, he was Vice President of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs for HIV/AIDS at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK, NYSE). He started his career at DuPont Pharmaceuticals in 1997. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and completed his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases in Ottawa Canada and a clinical and bench research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also on the Board of Directors for Celleron Therapeutics, an Oxford UK-based private company focused on immune oncology.