MATEON - Key Persons
Amit Shah, age 53, has served as a senior financial officer for a number of life science companies, including Chief Financial Officer at Marina Biotech, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company (2017 to 2018); Vice President of Finance & Accounting and Acting Chief Financial Officer at Insightra Medical Inc. (2014 to 2015); VP Finance and Acting Chief Financial Officer at IgDraSol Inc. (2013); Corporate Controller & Director of Finance at ISTA Pharmaceuticals (2010 to 2012); Corporate Controller at Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (2007 to 2010): and as Controller / Senior Manager Internal Audits at Caraco Pharmaceuticals Laboratories (2000 to 2007). In addition to his work with life sciences companies, Mr. Shah served as the Chief Financial Officer at Eagle Business Performance Services, a management consulting and business advisory firm (2018 through March 2019) and as a consultant and ultimately Senior Director of Finance - ERP, at Young's Market Company (2015 to 2017). Mr. Shah received a Bachelor's of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai, and is an Associate Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Mr. Shah is also an inactive CPA from Colorado, USA.
Job Titles:
- Chief Clinical Officer - Translational Medicine
Dr. Maida, an expert in immuno-oncology, currently serves as Senior Vice President - Clinical Research at Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc. Prior to joining Northwest Dr. Maida served as Vice President, Clinical Research and General Manager, Oncology, World-wide at PharmaNet, Inc. Prior to joining PharmaNet Dr. Maida served as Chairman, Founder and Director of BioConsul Drug Development Corporation and Principal of Anthony Maida Consulting International, servicing pharmaceutical firms, venture capital, hedge funds and Wall Street. Dr. Maida's skill set includes the leading execution and oversight of finance, operations, research, clinical and scientific development, regulatory and manufacturing for the development of various oncology immunotherapies. Over the past 25 years Dr. Maida has served in a number of executive roles, including, Chairman, CEO, COO, CSO, CFO and business development. Over recent years Dr. Maida has raised, or assisted in financings, nearly $200 million for emerging biotechnology companies. Dr. Maida serves as an advisor, consultant and technical analyst for CMX Capital, LLC, Sagamore Bioventures, Roaring Fork Capital, Toucan Capital, North Sound Capital, The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation and vFinance; the later three companies are located on the East Coast. Additionally, Dr. Maida has been retained by Abraxis BioScience, Inc., Northwest BioTherapeutics, Inc. and Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, Japan). Dr. Maida holds a Ph.D. in Immunology, a B.A. degree in Biology, a B.A. Degree in History, a MBA and a MA in toxicology. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the Society of Neuro-Oncology (SNO), the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), and the American Chemical Society. Dr. Maida holds a patents and patent applications associated with various therapeutic modalities and approaches.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Saran has been founder, CEO and GM at startups and public companies. Passionate about applying technology innovations to real world markets, he successfully founded an AI consortium to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI which engaged leading universities and technology vendors. A startup veteran, his track record includes senior leadership roles at companies that were acquired by leaders such as Marvell (MRVL) and Qualcomm (QCOM). His startup Cybercash (CYCH) had a successful IPO on NASDAQ. Saran started his career at Xerox PARC pushing 1's and 0's as a software engineer.
Steven W. King served as the CEO of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDMO) and its wholly-owned biomanufacturing subsidiary Avid Bioservices, Inc., for over 15 years, during which time the company advanced its lead compound through Phase 3 development, while growing revenues to over $55 million. Prior to joining Peregrine, Mr. King was employed at Vascular Targeting Technologies, Inc., which was acquired by Peregrine in 1997. Mr. King served in a variety of executive roles at Peregrine, including Director of Research and Development (1997 to 2000), Vice President Technology and Product development (2000 to 2002), Chief Operating officer (2002 to 2003) and Chief Executive Officer (2003 to 2017). Mr. King served on the Board of Directors of Peregrine from 2003 until 2017. Mr. King previously worked at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and is co-inventor on over 40 U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications in the vascular targeting agent field. Mr. King received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Texas Tech University in Cell and Molecular Biology.
Dr. Trieu, an expert in pharmaceutical development, currently serves as CEO/Chairman of Oncotelic Inc.. Previously he was President and CEO of Igdrasol- developer of 2nd generation Abraxane- where he pioneer the regulatory pathway for approval of paclitaxel nanomedicine through a single bioequivalence trial against Abraxane. When Igdrasol merged with Sorrento Therapeutics, he became CSO and Board Director. He was Board Director of Cenomed- a company focusing on CNS drug development. Before that he was Director of Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics, and Biology at Abraxis where he lead the development of albumin encapsulated therapeutics along building high throughput platform for small molecules, mirRNA, kinases. Prior to that he was Group Leader at Applied Molecular Evoluton where he was developing biobetter for Humira and Enbrel. Before that he was Director of Cardiovascular Biology at Parker Hughes Institute. Dr. Trieu holds a PhD in Microbiology, BS in Microbiology and Botany. He is member of ENDO, ASCO, AACR, and many other professional organization. Dr. Trieu published widely in oncology, cardiovascular, and drug development. Dr. Trieu has over 100 patent applications and 39 issued US patents.