REPLICEL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Management Team
- President
- Chief Technology Officer With MainPointe Pharmaceuticals
Mr. Schutte is the Chief Technology Officer with MainPointe Pharmaceuticals in Louisville Kentucky. Additionally, he is president and sole proprietor of two oil industry related companies, Nolan Olbohrung LLC and Valence Oil LLC. Investment-minded and accomplished, his current CV also includes the management of several private investment accounts.
Mr. Schutte began his career in pharmaceuticals with US based, Gerimed Inc. as a VBA Programmer. Gerimed Inc. serviced independent pharmacies serving long-term care and home care patients. He has been a shareholder of RepliCel since early 2017 and served as an advisor to the Company prior to being elected to the RepliCel Board of Directors in late 2018.
Mr. Hall served as CEO and President of RepliCel Life Sciences from 2012 through 2015. He helped diversify RepliCel's cell therapy programs from a single program to three current clinical programs, as well as the development the RCI-02 dermal injector device. Previously, Mr. Hall consulted to government, pharma industry, biotech, eHealth and NGO's for two years. For the prior 15 years, Mr. Hall served in multiple roles including as the CFO, CCO, Treasurer and Secretary of Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Mr. Hall is a Past Chair and board member of Life Sciences BC and current director of Providence Health Care Research Institute and VANC Pharmaceuticals. He is the author of Life Sciences BC's position papers for the Premier's Competition Council Report and Conversation on Health. Mr. Hall was also a member of the BC Task Force on PharmaCare and serves on the board of directors of the Advantage BC. Mr. Hall holds an Honours degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Manitoba.
Mr. Hall serves as the Chairman of RepliCel's Board of Directors.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chartered Professional Accountant
Mr. Kwok is a Chartered Professional Accountant and has extensive experience with private and public companies. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2008.
Dr. McElwee, co-discoverer of the Company's technology and co-founder of RepliCel, is Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Bradford's School of Chemistry and Biosciences. Previously, he as an Associate Professor in the Department of Dermatology and Skin Health at the University of British Columbia, and Director of the Hair Research Laboratory in the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). His research has been funded by competitive grants awarded by multiple organizations including the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (the equivalent of the National Institutes for Health in the USA).
Dr. McElwee is one of only a small group of research scientists worldwide who studies hair biology and associated diseases. He has worked as a hair research scientist for 12 years and has published over 70 medical journal articles, research abstracts and academic book chapters on hair loss research. Dr. McElwee received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and his PhD from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Postdoctoral training included three years at the Jackson Laboratory in Maine and four years at the University of Marburg, Germany, studying various hair loss diseases.
Dr. McElwee serves as RepliCel's Chief Scientific Officer.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Member of the Executive Committee
Dr. Davidson has facilitated the recovery of numerous high profile professional athletes during his 30+ year career in sports medicine. He is the former Director, Post Grad Programmes Sports Medicine at the University of Auckland and is currently a member of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association and the Canadian Orthopaedic Association. He is the past president of the National Hockey League Physicians Society, past head physician and orthopaedic consultant for the Vancouver Canucks Hockey Club (NHL), past orthopaedic consultant to the Vancouver Grizzlies Basketball Team (NBA), past orthopaedic consultant to Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, and past orthopaedic consultant to the Canadian Football League Players Association. Dr. Davidson held the position of clinical professor, department of orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia until 2000. Dr. Davidson currently has appointments to the Auckland Surgical Centre and Southern Cross Hospital in New Zealand and is the Director of the Post-Graduate Programme in Sports Medicine at the University of Auckland. Dr. Davidson is a highly regarded and sought-after lecturer having presented more than 60 lectures and presentations and is published in 17 scientific publications on sports-related injuries and treatments.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Professor of Dermatology
Prof Dr. med Jean Krutmann is Professor of Dermatology and Environmental Medicine and Director of the IUF Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. He is also a Visiting/Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA), Nagoya City University (Nagoya, Japan), and at Fudan University (Shanghai, China). He is a member of the National Academy of Science of Germany. Professor Krutmann's research is in the field of derma-toxicology and immune-dermatology with special emphasis on environmentally-induced skin diseases and skin aging. His scientific contributions include the development of UVA1 phototherapy, the discovery that infrared A radiation and air pollution contribute to skin aging, and that the aryl hydrocarbon receptor is involved in skin stress responses including photocarcinogenesis. Prof. Krutmann is author or co-author of more than 400 papers. Prof. Krutmann is the recipient of the International Arnold-Rikli-Award, the Albert Fleckenstein Award, the Paul Gerson Unna Award, the Oscar Gans Award, the C.E.R.I.E.S. Research Support Award, the Dermopharmacy Innovation Award and the Xu Guang Qi Lecturer Award. Since 2010, he is a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Science. Since 2012, he has been the coordinator of the Leibniz Research Alliance "Healthy Ageing" (a strategic alliance of 23 Leibniz institutes). Jean Krutmann obtained his MD from the University of Münster in 1986. After several stays abroad (postdoc at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and DFG stipend at the University Hospital for Dermatology in Vienna, Austria) he became Resident/ Assistant/Associate Professor at the University Hospital for Dermatology in Freiburg, Germany. From 1994 until 2001 he was full Professor/Deputy Director of the University Hospital for Dermatology Düsseldorf, Germany. In 2001 he was appointed Chair of Environmental Medicine at the Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and thereby also Director of IUF. Under his directorship in 2011 the institute became a member of the Leibniz Association and was renamed IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine. His research focuses on dermatotoxicology, immunodermatology and photodermatology with an emphasis on environmentally-induced skin diseases and aging. In addition to being a clinical advisor to RepliCel, Professor Kturmann has been a consultant to, or IUF has received funding from Amway, Allergan/Skinceuticals, Beiersdorf, bitop, Blue Lagoon, Estee Lauder, Evonik, Galderma, Henkel, Horphag, ISDIN, Kiessling, Lancaster-Coty, LaRoche-Posay, L'Oreal, Lycored, Mary Kay, Procter & Gamble, Repairogen, Stada, Symrise, Unilever, Vichy, Walgreen-Boots-Alliance.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Senior Strategic Advisor to Directors ( Focus
Kunihiko Suzuki is one of the business leaders in Regenerative Medicine/Cell & Gene Therapy space in Japan.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Partner
- Shareholder
Mr. Lewis is a chartered accountant and partner with Lewis and Company, a firm specializing in taxation law since 1993. His areas of expertise include tax planning, acquisitions and divestitures, reorganizations and estate planning. Mr. Lewis is a sought-after educator, having taught and presented taxation courses at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia and the Canadian Tax Foundation.
He served on the Taxation Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for three years and as President and Secretary-Treasurer at the Jericho Tennis Club for a combined ten years. Mr. Lewis is currently a member of the University Endowment Lands Community Advisory Committee.
Mr. Lewis is a shareholder in RepliCel and serves as a member of the Board of Directors.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Vice Director of Nagoya City University Hospital
Prof. Akimichi Morita is the Vice Director of Nagoya City University Hospital and, since 2003 he has been Professor and Chairman of the Department of Geriatric and Environmental Dermatology at Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Nagoya Japan.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Clinical Advisor ( Focus
- Professor of Orthopedics
Professor Tsukasa Kumai is a Professor of Orthopedics in the Faculty of Sport Sciences at Waseda University in the heart of Tokyo Japan.
Since 2017 and after serving as a professor at the Department of Sports Medicine at Nara Medical University, Dr. Kumai has been involved in education and research in sports medicine and in the functional anatomy of motor organs at the School of Sport Sciences at Waseda University. Based on his basic research at the Musculoskeletal Biology and Sports Medicine Research Lab at the University of Wales, UK, and the Department of Anatomy at the University of Munich, Germany, he has been elucidating and applying functional anatomy to the treatment of tendon and ligament overuse disorders in athletes. In clinical practice, he specializes in minimally invasive treatment of foot disorders in athletes, including arthroscopic surgery and extracorporeal shock wave therapy, for which he is a pioneer in Japan. He still performs more than 200 arthroscopic surgeries per year.