Luitpold Pharmaceuticals and Eon Labs Manufacturing. He earned his M.S. in Management & Policy and B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Elizabeth Czerepak was appointed as a Director in February 2020. Ms. Czerepak served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer at Genevant Sciences, Inc., a development stage mRNAstart-up based in Cambridge, MA, from May 2018 until January 2020. From 2015 until 2018, she served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development at Altimmune, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALT), a clinical stage immunotherapeutics biotechnology company. She served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer of Isarna Therapeutics Inc., which developed selective TGFb inhibitors to fight cancer and to treat ophthalmic and fibrotic diseases, from 2014 to 2015. Prior to that she served as Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, Principal Accounting Officer and Head of Human Resources at Cancer Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CGIX), a company that develops, commercializes and provides molecular and biomarker-based tests, from 2011 until 2014. From 2000 to 2009, she served as a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bear Stearns & Co., and a General Partner at Bear Stearns Health Innoventures L.P., a venture capital fund. From 1982 to 2000, she served in senior and executive level position at BASF (Knoll) Pharma,Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. and Merck & Co., Inc. (NASDAQ:MRK).
William D. Rueckert was appointed as a Director in December 2014. Mr. Rueckert has served on many public and private corporate boards in both the life science and banking industries. He is currently President of Oyster Management Group, LLC, an investment partnership specializing in community banking. From 2007 until 2012 he served on the board of Novogen Ltd. (ASX, NASDAQ) a biotechnology company based in Sydney, Australia. He acted as Chairman from 2010 until 2012, and as acting CEO led the restructuring of the company, spinning off its major subsidiary, Marshall Edwards, Inc. (now MEI Pharma, Inc. NASDAQ.) He is currently a director of MEI Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ), a San Diego based company that is developing novel oncology therapies. Until its sale to H. Lundbeck A/S, he was a director of Chelsea Therapeutics International, Ltd. (NASDAQ) whose drug candidate, Northera, was approved by the FDA in 2014. He has also served on the boards of several banks including Westport Bank and Trust, Lafayette American Bank and Hudson United Bank (all NASDAQ.) He currently serves on the board of Fairfield County Bank, a mutually owned, community bank based in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Bleachers, Inc., a privately held company that streams live and archived sports and entertainment events from independent schools. Among his civic associations, Mr. Rueckert is a Director and President of the ClevelandH. Dodge Foundation, Co-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Teachers College, Columbia University, a Director of the Y Retirement Fund, a Trustee of International House, an Emeritus Director of the YMCA of Greater New York, a Trustee of the American University of Beirut and a Director of Wave Hill, Inc. He earned a BA in Spanish in 1977 from the University of New Hampshire. The Nominating Committee considered Mr. Rueckert’s experience and qualifications, in addition to his relevant executive management and operational pharmaceutical experience, as well as the overall composition of the Board, in making the determination that Mr. Rueckert should serve as director of Delcath.
Roger G. Stoll, PhD. was appointed as a Director of the Company in December 2008. He became Executive Chairman in September, 2014 and has served as Chairman of the Board since October 1, 2015. From 2002 to 2008 he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cortex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (now RespireRX Pharmaceuticals Inc.). In August of 2008 he was appointed Executive Chairman of the board of directors of Cortex and retired in 2012. From 2001 to 2002 he was a consultant to several east coast venture capital firms and startup ventures. From 1998 to 2001, he was Executive Vice President of Fresenius Medical Care-North America, in charge of the dialysis products division and the diagnostic business units, which included hemodialysis machines, dialysis filters, dialysate solutions, and attendant devices used in the dialysis procedure. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Stoll was Chief Executive of Ohmeda, a global leader in anesthetic agents, critical care drugs and related operating room devices with sales of $1 billion annually. From 1986 to 1991, Dr. Stoll held several positions of increasing responsibility at Bayer, AG including, Chief Administrative Office, President of Consumer Healthcare business unit, and Executive Vice-President and General Manager for its worldwide Diagnostic Business Group which included the acquisition of The Tecnicon Company and globally integrating the Bayer and Techincon business units. This resulted in a global diagnostic business in excess of
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