Board Of Directors

Michel Lussier* serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Lussier has founded MedPole Ltd, the North American affiliate of MedPole SA, a European incubator for medical technology start-up companies located in Belgium and serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the group. Since May 2014 and until September 2020, Mr. Lussier has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Metronom Health Inc, an early stage medical device company founded by Fjord Ventures, developing a continuous glucose monitoring system. Prior to that, from 2002 to 2013, he worked for Volcano Corporation, where he served several positions, most recently as President, Clinical and Scientific Affairs from 2012 to 2013, and prior to that from 2007 to 2012, Group President, Advanced Imaging Systems, Global Clinical & Scientific Affairs and General Management of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Lussier obtained a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Electrical Engineering and Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Montreal. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration), France. In addition to serving on the Company’s Board of Directors, he also serves on the boards of several early stage medical devices companies.

Chris Buyse brings more than 30 years of international financial expertise and experience in introducing best financial management practices. He is currently Managing Director of FUND+, a fund that invests in innovative Belgian Life Sciences companies, Between August 2006 and June 2014, Mr. Buyse served as the Chief Financial Officer and board member of ThromboGenics NV, a leading biotech company that is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels. Before joining ThromboGenics, he was the Chief Financial Officer of the Belgian biotech company CropDesign, where he coordinated the acquisition by BASF in July 2006. Prior to joining CropDesign NV he was financial manager of WorldCom/MCI Belux, a European subsidiary of one of the world’s largest telecommunication companies and he was also the Chief Financial Officer and interim Chief Executive Officer of Keyware Technologies. Mr. Buyse holds a Master’s Degree in applied economic sciences from the University of Antwerp and a Master of Business Association from Vlerick School of Management in Gent. He currently serves, in his own name or as permanent representative of a management company, as member of the board of directors of the following publicly and privately held companies: Bio Incubator NV, Pinnacle Investments SA, CreaBuild NV, Sofia BVBA, Pienter-Jan BVBA, Life Sciences Research Partners VZW, Inventiva SA, The Francqui Foundation and EyeDPharma SA. Mr. Buyse is also Board observer at Hyloris pharmaceuticals and the Foundation Louis-Jeantet (CH).

Rudy Dekeyser is partner at LSP, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms in healthcare. Prior to joining LSP, Mr. Dekeyser has been co-managing director of VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology), where he was also responsible for all activities related to the intellectual property portfolio, business development and the establishment of new companies. He holds non-executive director positions in Sequana Medical NV, Lumeon Inc and Remynd NV, and held non-executive director positions in Devgen NV, CropDesign NV, Ablynx NV, Actogenix NV, Flandersbio VZW and Multiplicom NV. He is a co-founder of ASTP (the European associations of technology transfer managers) and Chairman of EMBLEM (EMBL’s business arm). Mr. Dekeyser is member of the advisory boards of several foundations investing in life sciences research and innovation. He obtained a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University Ghent.

Serge Goblet holds a Master’s Degree in Business and Consular Sciences from ICHEC, Belgium and has many years of international experience as director in Belgian and foreign companies. Mr. Goblet is the managing director of TOLEFI SA, a Belgian holding company and holds director mandates in subsidiaries of TOLEFI.

Dominic Piscitelli brings more than 20 years of industry experience, including debt and equity financings, in-licensing transactions, acquisitions, marketing partnerships and commercial product launches (XTANDI® and Tarceva®). Since September 2019 Dominic has served as the Chief Financial Officer of ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Nasdaq-listed biotechnology company, that completed its initial public offering in April 2020. Prior to joining ORIC, Mr. Piscitelli was CFO of AnaptysBio, a Nasdaq-listed biotechnology company, where he helped raise over $500 million in an IPO and follow-on financings. From 2012 until 2017, Mr. Piscitelli was Vice President of Finance, Strategy and Investor Relations at Medivation and played a key role in its acquisition by Pfizer. Previously, he served as Senior Director of Collaborations and Operations Finance at Astellas Pharma. Prior to that, Mr. Piscitelli served in various roles of increasing responsibility culminating as the Vice President, Treasury & Management Finance at OSI Pharmaceuticals, and played a significant role in their acquisition by Astellas. Mr. Piscitelli began his career with KPMG and is a certified public accountant. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA from Hofstra University (New York).

Ms. Shah is Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group and a partner of Fortress’ Intellectual Property Fund, a $40+ Billion dollar hedge fund providing the U.S.’s first structured patent financing platform, providing companies, universities and institutions unique access to capital based upon the asset value of their patent portfolios. Prior to joining Fortress, she was head of Global Wireless, Patents, for Intel Corporation for over 10 years.  Before joining Intel, she was an associate in the law firms of Dorsey & Whitney, and Fish & Richardson.  Ms. Shah began her career as an Examiner in the United States Patent Office. Intellectual Asset Magazine has consistently recognized Ms. Shah as a top “300” global IP leader. She holds a juris doctorate and degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.  She maintains an office in the Washington D.C. area with Fortress, where she is a member of both Maryland Bar and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Marina Udier, Ph.D., currently serves as CEO of Nouscom after joining as Chief Operating Officer in 2016 from Versant Ventures, where she was Operating Principal. Prior to Versant, she held senior development and commercial roles at Novartis in Basel including work as a Global Commercial Head. Previously, Dr. Udier worked for McKinsey & Company in the US, working with Healthcare Fortune 500 companies in areas of marketing, strategy and pricing. She has a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Yale University.

Hilde Windels is the Chief Executive Officer of the privately held diagnostics company Antelope Dx BV and she is also member of its boards of directors. Ms. Windels brings 20 years of experience in biotech with a track record of business and corporate strategy, building and structuring organizations, private fundraising, mergers and acquisitions and public capital markets. Ms. Windels has worked as Chief Financial Officer for several biotech companies, amongst those Belgium based molecular Dx company Biocartis where she started as Chief Financial Officer CFO in 2011. She transitioned to the co-Chief Executive Officer role in 2015 and became Chief Executive Officer in 2017. Later that year, she joined MyCartis NV as Chief Executive Officer and in 2019 she was appointed CEO of Mycartis’ spin-out Antelope Dx. Ms. Windels is member of the board of directors of Erytech and MdxHealth. She holds a Master’s Degrees in Economics (Commercial Engineer) from the University of Leuven (Belgium).

Filippo Petti is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, and Executive Director. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Petti worked in healthcare investment banking both at Wells Fargo Securities and William Blair & Company. Prior to his roles in investment banking, Mr. Petti spent several years in equity research covering U.S. biotechnology companies both at William Blair & Company and Wedbush Securities. He began his career as a research scientist at OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. focused on drug discovery and translational research, and later transitioning into corporate development with the company. Mr. Petti holds a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University, a Master of Science from St. John’s University and a Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University.