CELECOR - Key Persons


Andreas Ritzi

Job Titles:
  • CFO of Cadorit AG
  • Co - Founder Member, Board of Directors
Andreas Ritzi is CFO of Cadorit AG, a Swiss-based investment company. He is a financial specialist and accomplished entrepreneur. He has an MBA from the University of St. Gallen and an MSc in Finance from the London Business School.

Andrew Weisenfeld

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • MTS Partners, Strategic & Financial Advisor

Arnoud van't Hof

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator, Member Steering Committee

Barry S. Coller

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Medical & SAB, Co - Founder, and Inventor of Zalunfiban
Barry S. Coller, MD, is vice president for medical affairs, David Rockefeller Professor, head of the Allen and Frances Adler Laboratory of Blood and Vascular Biology, and physician-in-chief at The Rockefeller University. He is an expert on the basic molecular mechanisms involved in blood clotting and thrombosis. His research accomplishments include the development of a monoclonal antibody to platelets that was developed into the drug ReoPro. He is also the inventor of RUC-4.

C. Michael Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Steering Committee

Chris Granger

Job Titles:
  • Steering Committee

David Rockefeller

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Head of the Allen

Ellis F. Unger

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Principal Drug Regulatory Expert, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C

Gilles Montalescot

Job Titles:
  • Steering Committee

Jack Lief

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Jack Lief co-founded Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and served as its president and chief executive officer. He served as chairman of the board of directors of BIOCOM and is an executive board member of BIOCOM. He also held senior business development positions at Cephalon, Alpha Therapeutics and Abbott Laboratories.

John Maraganore

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Strategic Advisor

Kathy Valcke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Clinical Development

Lynda Szczech

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Medical Monitor, Clinical Development

MariJo Gleeson - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Chief Financial Officer

Martin Gerstel

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Business Advisor
  • Member of the Steering Committee

Michael Levy

Job Titles:
  • Steering Committee

Oana Cociorva

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Director of Planning and Administration

Peter Finn

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Corporate Counsel & Counsel to BOD

Rob Stars

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Steering Committee
  • Global Clinical Project Management

Robert S. Hillman - CEO, Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Biomedical Engineer
  • CEO
  • Co - Founder
  • President
Robert S. Hillman, PhD, is a biomedical engineer and successful serial entrepreneur/inventor. He studied at Stanford University, MIT, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Z). Early in his career, Dr. Hillman led the development of the GenESA System, the first drug-device combination cleared by the FDA for diagnosing coronary artery disease. Dr. Hillman was also co-founder at Accumetrics, where he led the development of the VerifyNow System; Biotrack, where he lead the development of the CoaguCheck System; Tem Systems, where he led the development of the Rotem Sigma; and ActivX Biosciences, an early pioneer in activity-based proteomics. Many of these products are still in use today in hospitals and research institutions worldwide.

Yatindra Joshi

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Pharmaceutical Development