HORIZON3BIOTECH - Key Persons

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• Chartered Accountant and Member of the Governance Institute of Australia

Ms Newstead-Sinclair is a Chartered Accountant and Member of the Governance Institute of Australia at the Corporate Business Service Provider, Vistra Australia. Ms Newstead-Sinclair has been CFO and Company Secretary for a number of ASX listed and unlisted public and private companies in the biotechnology and healthcare sectors, including over 9 years as Senior Director of Finance, Legal & HR and Company Secretary for Cogstate Limited (ASX:CGS).

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• Senior Investment Professional & Investment Committee Member

Dr Bev Thomas is an experienced investment, strategic and operational professional with focus on SME management. She has successfully delivered on roles in early stage venture investment, organisational turnaround and growth. Dr Thomas combines Board experience on start-up investee companies and not-for-profit organisations with strong technical capabilities and commercial acumen, supporting the development and execution of successful strategic outcomes across a range of SMEs. She is currently Director of Clean Energy Finance Corporation; an Australian clean technology venture fund with $200 million funds under management. Bev is responsible for lead identification and due diligence activities for new pipeline investment opportunities. In addition, she is an active Member of the Board of Directors for start-up investee companies. ​Previously, she was the CEO of Australia's leading Phase I clinical faculty, Investment Manager for a large Medical Research Commercialisation Fund that supports the development of Australian life science companies with >$300 million under management. ​She holds a Ph.D and a Bachelor of Pharmacy, Upper Second Class (Hons), University of Bath, UK, and she also holds an MBA from Deakin University.

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• Pharmacologist
• Pharmacologist & Investment Committee Member

Dr Qibing Mei is a world-leading pharmacologist who has dedicated his career to leadership in new drug evaluation. His expertise has been put to impressive effect with his leadership in establishing best practice drug evaluation in China.

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• Non - Executive Director and Deputy Director of Research

Dr Tam Nguyen has over 15 years of board level experience across not for profit, healthcare and aged care sectors. Dr Tam Nguyen is a Non-Executive Director and Deputy Director of Research with over 15 years of board level experience across not for profit, healthcare and aged care sectors. He has over 22 years of working in the healthcare, health & medical research environment including tertiary teaching hospitals research institute and community clinics. Tam holds senior executive role with strategic and operational responsibilities in research business development, research innovation and commercialisation and research strategy. He is a regular invited speaker on a broad range of topics including: Industry Collaboration both in the Medtech and Pharma Sector; Digital Health, Big Data & Digital Transformation and AI & Machine Learning in healthcare. He chairs and moderates at numerous national and international conferences. Tam has a wide network of clinical and commercial professionals in Australia, in particular Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. His US network spreads across East Coast to West Coast including Boston, New York, Minnesota, Texas, San Francisco, LA and San Diego. Tam works closely with Federal, State departments and peak bodies to promote Australia as the destination to conduct clinical trials. Tam is active with a number peak bodies including AusBiotech, ARCS and the Society of Clinical Research Sites (SCRS). He has been active with the SCRS ANZ Ambassador Program and is the current chair of the SCRS ANZ Site Solutions Summit.

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• Senior Corporate Advisor & Board Director

Glenn Cross has spent his career working in life sciences progressing from the lab bench to senior executive positions. His strong executive experience combined with deep laboratory experience gives him a solid understanding of the Australian and global biotech sector. ​Currently he is involved in capital markets and general investment activities in North America, Asia and Australia. He is the CEO of his own investment and advisory company Red Bluff Capital. He is also a non-executive director on the board of a number of biotechnology and medical device companies. Previously he was the Chief Operating Officer and CEO of AusBiotech for over 13 years, and has over 40 years' experience in the life sciences sector. Glenn has held senior executive roles in both multinational and Australian companies. His expertise covers general management, sales, marketing, finance, distribution and manufacturing in the life sciences market. Glenn also has experience in human resources, product development and manufacturing.

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• Founder
• Founder of Huikang Bio

Jian Sun is the Founder of Huikang Bio-Tech and Director of Huikang Group. He has a very persistent belief in the health industry and biotechnology, a forward-looking strategic vision, excellent operational capabilities, and rich management experience. ​Over 20 years of operating and running Huikang Group, which continues to this day, Mr Sun has overseen 60 patents granted in China and abroad, more than 50 patents pending, and a number of awards for its research achievements with many of those commercialised in market, in China. At present, A$100,000,000 has been invested to create the Huikang Biotechnology Industrial Park equipped with international advanced scientific research and production equipment, covering R&D, manufacture and sale of new drugs, gene therapy, cosmetics and medical devices. In 2005 Mr Sun started doing business in Australia, with Melbourne now the international headquarters for Huikang Group. Mr. Sun and Huikang Group are dedicated and committed biotechnology industry participants with a long-term view to being a key contributor of the global biotech industry to advance mankind.

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• Board Director
• Chief Investment Officer
• Member of the Investment Committee

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• Banking and Capital Markets Executive & Board Executive Chairman

Mike Sullivan is an accomplished Banking and Capital Markets Executive with experience across the US and Australia. He is an inspirational leader who brings together talented teams to drive material business advantage. He has an established track record of success supporting and advising growing companies and business owners. Today, he leads a successful Corporate Advisory business supporting clients across diverse contexts and is an active investor in the life sciences sector in Australia and globally. ​Previously, he worked for 20 years in financial services across wealth management, equity capital markets, corporate advisory, and banking. His two decades' experience includes 11 years at National Australia Bank, 3 years at Ferris Baker Watts in the US. Mike has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland USA.

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• Life Sciences Business Development Executive & Investment Committee Member

Paul Field has over 25 years of business development experience across a range of disease areas, and a deep network in the global biopharmaceutical industry. He is currently a corporate advisor at Alsonex, Marinova, GARDP (Switzerland), and FIND (Switzerland) and until recently a business development advisor to Biocurate. Paul was previously the life sciences specialist at Austrade, the Australian Government's investment promotion agency, where he facilitated foreign direct investment into Australian research of infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer and other therapeutic areas. Paul was the founder and Executive Chairman of Bio-Link, a privately owned biotechnology business development company. His work at Bio-Link involved the commercialisation of discovery, pre-clinical and early stage clinical programs undertaken by Australian biotech companies and medical research institutions. Paul has served on a number of Boards, and he is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD).

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• Corporate Lawyer and Advisor & Board Director

Robin Chambers has a distinguished career as an international lawyer; his global perspective has resulted in leading edge experience on the negotiation and documentation of numerous joint ventures in Australia and overseas. He is currently the co-founder and Senior Partner of an Australian law firm which has a leading China and international law practice and is Chairman of China House, which is a consultancy for capital introductions on cross border investments. He has advised a number of major Chinese state-owned enterprises on their investments in Australia over a 34-year period. Previously he has been chairman and director of ASX listed companies, General Counsel on numerous projects, including many of the major resources projects developed in Australia, as well as on projects across Asia and other continents. Robin has been involved in developing a number of funds in Australia and overseas in areas such as tourism, resources and biotech. His involvement extends to projects in more than 30 countries. Robin has law degrees in Australia (Melbourne University) and in the USA (Duke) and is a MAICD. He received a citation in the Australian Queen's Birthday Honour List 2012 as an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, for his distinguished service to Australia-China relations, particularly in the promotion of trade and investment relationships.

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• Investment Analyst & Investment Committee Member

Scott Power has spent the last thirty years investing in and researching emerging companies.