GLYCOMIMETICS - Key Persons

Brian Hahn - CFO, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Senior Vice President
Mr. Hahn has more than 15 years of senior financial and operations experience in emerging organizations. He joined GlycoMimetics in 2010. Previously, Mr. Hahn served as executive director of finance at MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals (formerly Advancis Pharmaceutical), a publicly-traded specialty pharmaceutical company. Prior to Advancis, he was a senior accountant with Bering Truck Corporation. Mr. Hahn has worked with life science companies from early stages through product launch. He has been involved in multiple initial public offerings and has broad experience in developing strategic plans, creating business models, establishing accounting and auditing systems and ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Currently, Mr. Hahn serves as co-chairman of the BIO Finance and Tax Committee, as a co-chairman of the Steering Committee of the Washington, DC chapter of the Association for Bio Financial Officers (ABFO), and also serves on the Securities and Exchange Commissions' Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. He received a B.B.A. in Accounting from Shenandoah University and an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland.

Bruce Johnson - Chief Commercial Officer, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Commercial Officer
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Senior Vice President
Bruce joined GlycoMimetics in 2022 and has worldwide commercial responsibility for the GlycoMimetics pipeline. Bruce has more than 25 years' experience in the biopharma industry with a solid track record of leading multi-billion commercial franchises with responsibility for achieving commercialization, establishing novel capabilities, and improving profitability. He has successfully led product launches across a variety of disease areas, including breast, lung, kidney, melanoma and neuroendocrine tumors, as well as a wide range of hematologic malignancies and rare diseases. His direct launch experience includes Jakavi, Gleevec/Glivec, Rydapt, and Tasigna in hematology as well as Afinitor, Sandostatin/Sandostatin LAR, and Zometa in solid tumors. Previously, Bruce was Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer of the digital health company Cancer Expert Now, Inc. He helped lead the organization to national recognition by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 500 fastest-growing small companies in America. He worked for 25 years at Novartis, where he held several executive global and regional roles, including Vice President and Global Franchise Head, Malignant Hematology and Vice President and Global Disease Leader, Leukemia Franchise. He has also worked for AbbVie, Sandoz and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Bruce received a bachelor's degree in Microbiology from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). His education includes graduate work at Columbia University in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and at Rutgers University School of Management in Marketing and Finance.

Bryan Ridgell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Project Management Institute Member
  • Vice President, Portfolio and Project Management
Bryan joined GlycoMimetics in 2016 and is responsible for overseeing major project operations and implementing project management skills, tools and best practices across the company. A Certified Project Management Professional and Project Management Institute member, Bryan has more than 23 years' experience leading drug development projects and programs. He worked for more than 10 years at ICON Clinical Research, where he held several project management positions and gained experience on projects spanning a variety of compounds, indications and dosage forms. He was also Director, Project Management, at Rexahn Pharmaceuticals. Bryan received a B.S. degree in Marine and Environmental Chemistry from the Florida Institute of Technology and an MBA from The Johns Hopkins University.

Chinmaya Rath - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Officer
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Senior Vice President
Chinmaya is a global bio-pharma leader with a passion to bring innovative therapeutics to patients. For more than two decades, he has successfully assembled and led multi-functional teams that have consistently exceeded business objectives in dynamic situations by aligning people, objectives, priorities, and processes. He has effectively managed biotech start-ups, strategy, alliances, innovation, pre-clinical research, and commercial from early discovery to launch and in-line marketing across US, Europe, and Asia. Most recently Chinmaya was the Entrepreneur-in-residence with Catena Biosciences, where he is appointed as a Director. As a Venture Partner with Social Impact Capital, he advised their early-stage biotech investments. Prior to that, he was a Founder CEO of CelluRx, a potential cell therapy spin-off of Saliogen Therapeutics. In 2019, Chinmaya joined the leadership team at Omega Therapeutics (a Flagship Pioneering Company) where he played a key role in defining the strategy, portfolio, innovation, and business development efforts from pre-Series A to IPO in 2021. He also has expertise in business integration/acquisition, having led the US integration post-GSK Oncology acquisition and global commercial operations integration post-Alcon acquisition. He also has significant experience in leading high-impact enterprise-wide strategic projects at Novartis. Chinmaya has profound business acumen in oncology/hematology therapeutics while leading major US launches in both hematology and solid tumors. Chinmaya received MBAs from Warwick Business School, UK, and the Army Institute of Management Studies, India. He completed his undergraduate studies in Life Science with honors from Ravenshaw University, India.

Christian Dinneen-Long - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary

Job Titles:
  • Company Secretary
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the Management Team
As General Counsel and Company Secretary of GlycoMimetics, Christian provides legal and strategic business support to the Board, senior management and all functional areas and serves as the company's compliance officer and data protection officer. In all his responsibilities, Christian aims to provide proactive and pragmatic solutions, while encouraging and empowering others to realize their goals. Christian joined GlycoMimetics in April 2019 after more than 15 years of in-house experience at several public pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including AstraZeneca/MedImmune, Emergent BioSolutions, Inc., and Guliford Pharmaceuticals. At these companies, he supported strategic initiatives, pipeline programs, complex corporate transactions and SEC filings, among other legal and compliance-related responsibilities. Before joining the biotechnology field, Christian was associate counsel at law firms in Chicago, Kansas City and Washington, D.C. Christian earned his J.D. with honors from the Chicago-Kent College of Law and a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Daniel M. Junius

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Audit Committee
  • Director
  • Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
  • Audit Committee
Mr. Junius has been a director of GlycoMimetics, Inc. since March 2016. He also serves as director at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. He previously served as President and CEO of ImmunoGen from 2009 until his retirement in May 2016, preceded by several executive roles including President, COO, Executive Vice President and CFO. Before joining ImmunoGen, Mr. Junius was Executive Vice President and CFO of New England Business Service, Inc. until its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation in 2004. Mr. Junius holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Boston College and a Master's in Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Chair of the Audit Committee Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee

Debora Peralta

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Vice President, Commercial Operations
A member of the GlycoMimetics management team since February 2023, Debora has extensive global and US commercial pharmaceutical and biotech experience, highlighted by more than 17 product launches, and in-depth knowledge of the hematology, oncology and rare disease therapeutic areas. Before joining GlycoMimetics, Debora was Rare Disease, VP Franchise Head, for Ipsen. In that role, she hired a commercial team that would represent this new area of investment and focus for the company, developed and concluded the launch strategy and commercialization plans for palovarotene, and identified and developed new commercial opportunities. Debora spent 16 years of her career at Novartis, where she developed professionally through roles of increasing responsibility in the hematology, oncology and rare disease therapeutic areas. Among those roles, she was Senior Marketing Director, U.S. Hematology, for which she led the team supporting the simultaneous Rydapt® launch in two indications (Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Advanced Systemic Mastocytosis); Executive Director, Global Hematology Franchise, for which she led and managed the launch preparation for a sickle cell disease product; and Executive Director, Rare Diseases, Global Solid Tumor Franchise. In addition to a strong strategy skillset and the ability to navigate complex commercial scenarios, Debora has extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams and a deep understanding of what it takes to bring products to market as well as pipeline management. Debora holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedicine from Mogi das Cruzes University, Brazil, as well as a post-graduate degree in marketing and MBA in marketing administration from ESPM Marketing College in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Edwin Rock - SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Medical Officer
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Senior Vice President
Dr. Rock worked for 16 years in biopharma roles of increasing responsibility before joining GlycoMimetics in 2022. Most recently he was Chief Medical Officer at Partner Therapeutics. Previously, at MacroGenics he led the program culminating in FDA approval of Margenza TM. Dr. Rock has worked in biopharma on small molecules and biologics in all stages of development and marketing authorization. These agents include Busulfex TM, Inqovi®, Jynarque®, Leukine®, Margenza TM, Nucala, and Sprycel®, as well as investigational GNX-8, guadecitabine, lorigerlimab, the MAGE-A3 cancer vaccine, OPB-31121, OPB-51602, OPB-111077, retifanlimab, tebotelimab, and others not disclosed. Earlier, he worked for a year as a life sciences buyside analyst at Leerink Swann and Company and for 2 years as an FDA Medical Officer in oncology drug review. Dr. Rock holds a BA in Biology and Economics from Swarthmore College. He earned Ph.D. then MD degrees at Stanford before Internal Medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Medical Oncology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gaetano Bonifacio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Vice President, Global Medical Affairs
In nearly two decades of pharmaceutical industry leadership, Gaetano has demonstrated a strong commitment to patient care, clinical and scientific research, and team leadership, as well as a passion for advancing treatment of hematological diseases. His extensive experience encompasses multiple launches of hematologic therapies across diverse geographies including Europe, US and Americas, as well as Asia/Pacific. Gaetano led the US launch of midostaurin, a Flt-3 kinase inhibitor for acute myeloid leukemia. An accomplished medical affairs professional, he has held Global, US and European hematology and oncology executive roles for BMS, Novartis, GSK, and Amgen. He received his medical degree and hematology board certification from the University of Palermo and his master's degree in general management from the SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan. Gaetano has broad clinical experience treating patients with hematologic diseases and solid tumors, as well as thrombosis and hemostasis. He has served as an investigator/sub-investigator across multiple clinical trials.

Harout Semerjian - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Management Team
  • President
  • Ipsen As Vice President & Head of Specialty
During Harout's nearly three decades as a global bio-pharmaceutical leader, he has built a reputation as an effective leader, building high-impact teams and delivering sustainable results. He has launched and worked on numerous hematology/oncology assets and has provided strategic counsel on healthcare investments - all with patients in need of new treatments as his inspiration. Harout's educational background in science and business laid the foundation for his career. He holds a B.S. in Biology from the Lebanese American University, as well as MBAs from Cornell University and Queen's University-Canada, respectively. Harout entered the pharma industry in pharma sales in Lebanon and subsequently transferred to Novartis Canada, which led to a progression of strategic and operational roles with increasing leadership responsibility during his 17-year tenure. He served as global lead for Gleevec, SVP and global head for Ribociclib, and was VP & Franchise Head, US Hematology. Internationally, he has served as General Manager for the Nordic region, and Region Head for Middle East-North Africa at Novartis Oncology. In 2017, Harout joined Ipsen as Vice President & Head of Specialty Care for an international region before becoming Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. In the EVP/CCO role, he was accountable for the company's worldwide commercialization and portfolio strategy. Harout also briefly served as CEO of Immunomedics before its sale to Gilead, after which he became an independent advisor to private equity companies focused on healthcare investment. Harout joined GlycoMimetics in August 2021 as President and CEO. The company discovered and is developing uproleselan, an investigational first-in-class E-selectin antagonist, currently advancing a Phase 3 study for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

John M. Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry
John, who joined GlycoMimetics in 2012 as Senior Director of Chemistry, manages the company's internal and external discovery chemistry initiatives and provides strategic guidance on drug candidate optimization. He has nearly 30 years' experience in drug discovery. John began his career at Neurogen Corporation where he assumed positions of increasing responsibility culminating in management of the Hits to Leads group. He then moved to H Lundbeck A/S where he served as Project Leader for several central nervous system-related programs. John received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University, where his research focused on oligosaccharide synthesis - including the E-selectin ligand Sialyl-Lewis X. He earned a BS in Chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Lisa DeLuca

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
Lisa is passionate about bringing safer, more effective oncology drugs to cancer patients, which she currently does as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at GlycoMimetics. Lisa joined GlycoMimetics in November 2021 with nearly 30 years of extensive Regulatory Affairs experience at large pharma and small biotech companies across multiple solid and liquid tumor types, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Well-versed in regulatory strategy and agency interactions, Lisa has successfully led programs requiring complex dialogue with both the US Food and Drug Administration and international authorities. Her career is hallmarked by multiple product registrations and approvals. Most notably, while Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Celator Pharmaceuticals, she directed activities surrounding the submission of an NDA for Vyxeos, which led to its approval as first therapeutic in over 40 years to improve survival for high-risk AML patients. Lisa holds undergraduate and master's degrees in biology from Eastern Michigan University, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toledo, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan.

Mark A. Goldberg

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee
  • Consultant
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Compensation Committee
  • Nominating and Governance Committee
Dr. Goldberg is a consultant to several biotechnology companies. Previously he served as Executive Vice President for Medical and Regulatory strategy and as the Senior Vice President of Medical and Regulatory Affairs at Synageva BioPharma Corp. Dr. Goldberg also worked in a variety of senior management positions at Genzyme Corporation, including as Senior Vice President and Therapeutic Group Head for Oncology and Personalized Genetic Health Clinical Development. Prior to Genzyme, he was a staff physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where he still holds appointments. He was an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1996 to 2018 and he now serves as senior lecturer. Dr. Goldberg is a board-certified medical oncologist and hematologist and has more than 50 published papers. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of ImmunoGen, Inc., Blueprint Medicines, Idera Pharmaceuticals and Audentes Therapeutics. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee Member of the Compensation Committee

Martina Hemmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Vice President, Clinical Operations
Martina is Vice President, Clinical Operations at GlycoMimetics. She joined the company in November 2010 and previously served as Senior Director, Clinical Programs and Director, Clinical Operations. Martina has more than 25 years of Phase 1-3 experience in clinical pharmaceutical operations in academic, CRO and biotech settings, and across numerous therapeutic areas. In addition to more than 10 years working in hematology/oncology, she has experience in biodefense, cardiology, infectious disease, neurology, psychiatry, transplant and vaccines. She has worked across multiple solid and liquid tumor types, including acute myeloid leukemia. Before her clinical research career, Martina worked in the psychiatric field in direct patient care, specializing in the treatment of personality disorders. Martina holds a B.A. in psychology from Stony Brook University and an M.A. in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University.

Patricia S. Andrews

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Audit Committee
  • CEO of Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Oncology, Inc
  • Member of the GlycoMimetics Board
Ms. Andrews has been a member of the GlycoMimetics board since June 2017. Ms. Andrews is the CEO of Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Oncology, Inc., a clinical-stage research and development biopharmaceutical company, and Global Head of Oncology and an Executive Officer for Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. Prior to joining this organization in 2013, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Incyte for four years, where she established the commercial organization for the launch of its first-in-class, first-in-disease oncology product Jakafi®. She was also responsible for business development and completed multiple significant product licensing deals for Incyte. Ms. Andrews held increasing leadership positions at Pfizer from 1991-2008, with her final role being Vice President and General Manager of the U.S. Oncology Business Unit. Ms. Andrews received her M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and her B.A. from Brown University. Member of the Audit Committee

Rachel K. King - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Director
  • Former CEO
Mrs. King is co-founder and former CEO of GlycoMimetics, Inc. (GMI). Before founding GMI, she was an Executive in Residence at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the nation's leading venture capital firms. Mrs. King came to NEA after serving as a senior vice president of Novartis Corporation. Before joining Novartis, Mrs. King spent 10 years with Genetic Therapy, Inc. through the company's early stage, initial public offering and eventual sale to Novartis. After the sale to Novartis, she was named CEO and ran the company as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Novartis. Mrs. King also worked previously at ALZA Corporation in Palo Alto, CA and at Bain & Company in Boston. Mrs. King is the past Chair of the Board as well as past of the Chair Emerging Companies Governing Board of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization ("BIO"); she continues to serve on BIO's board. She also served as Chair of the Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board under former Governor Martin O'Malley. Mrs. King now serves on the boards of Novavax, Inc. and the University of Maryland BioPark. She received her B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Scott Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Compensation Committee
  • Audit Committee
Scott Jackson served as Celator CEO and as a member of the Board of Directors from April 2008 until July 2016, when the company was acquired by Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc. Under Mr. Jackson's leadership, Celator successfully developed Vyxeos® for treatment of newly diagnosed AML patients. He has more than 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and has held positions of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing and commercial development at Eli Lilly & Co., SmithKline Beecham, ImClone Systems Inc., Centocor Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson, Eximias Pharmaceutical and YM BioSciences. Mr. Jackson holds a B.S. in pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. He presently serves on the Board of Directors of MacroGenics, Inc. and the Board of Trustees of the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society®. Member of the Audit Committee Member of the Compensation Committee

Scott Koenig

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
  • Nominating and Governance Committee
Dr. Koenig has been President, CEO and a director of MacroGenics, Inc. since September 2001 and was one of the company's co-founders. Previously, Dr. Koenig served as Senior Vice President of Research at MedImmune, where he participated in the selection and maturation of its product pipeline. He also worked at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, where he investigated the immune response to retroviruses and studied the pathogenesis of AIDS. Dr. Koenig currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, and as a member of the boards at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and the International Biomedical Research Alliance. He serves as co-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland. Dr. Koenig received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Cornell University and his M.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee

Stephanie Irish

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Member of the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants
  • Vice President, Accounting
Stephanie joined GlycoMimetics in 2014. As the Vice President of Accounting, she oversees the company's accounting and tax operations and manages SEC reporting. She has more than 25 years' experience in finance and accounting, working primarily for private and public life science companies. Before joining GlycoMimetics, Stephanie was Acting Chief Financial Officer at Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and held controller roles at Zyngenia Inc., and Avalon Pharmaceuticals. A Certified Public Accountant, Stephanie is a member of the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of CPAs. Stephanie received a a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Timothy R. Pearson - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman of the Compensation Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Chief Executive Officer of Carrick Therapeutics
  • Compensation Committee
Mr. Pearson is currently Chief Executive Officer of Carrick Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical company focusing on the innovative research and development of transformative oncology medicines. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for TESARO, Inc., a publicly held oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company. Previous positions include EVP and CFO at Catalyst Health Solutions, a publicly held pharmacy benefit manager with over $5bn in revenues, and EVP and CFO at MedImmune, where he had functional responsibility for finance, information technology, strategic planning and governance. Mr. Pearson previously served on the board of directors of Ra Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly held biopharmaceutical company until acquisition by UCB in 2020. He is a CPA, holds B.S. degrees in Business Administration from the University of Delaware and in Accounting from the University of Maryland University College, and an M.S. in Finance from Loyola University.