Our Team

Independent Directors and Advisors

Independent Directors

Director

Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and national leader in mental health
Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) committed to research on mental disorders, from 2002–2015
Co-Director of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative
Led the Mental Health Team at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences) in South San Francisco, CA. In 2017, co-founded Mindstrong Health, offering virtual care and psychiatric telehealth services for people with serious mental illness
In 2020, co-founded Humanestcare, a global therapeutic online community for recovery

Director

30-year Wall Street veteran
Co-founded more than a dozen biotech firms
Six FDA-approved drugs developed by companies he co-founded
Significant experience raising private equity capital
Co-founder and Vice-Chairman of TargImmune Therapeutics
Co-founder and former partner of Two River Group
Co-founder of PolaRx Biopharmaceuticals; developing the first cancer drug from China, Trienox, approved by FDA
Co-founder and former Vice Chairman of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals

Director

25+ years of international banking experience
Expert in strategic investment in the life sciences, including biopharma, consumer-digital health, medical technology, and drug-device combination devices
Chairman of Nectero Medical
Managing Director at RM Global Partners LLC
General Partner of the RMGP Bio-Pharma Investment funds: deploying funds into innovative biopharma start-ups in Israel in collaboration with JNJ, Takeda, Bayer, and Orbimed
Managing Partner of Health Family Capital, LLC
National Board of Directors of AdvaMed Accel

Advisor

25-year veteran of Israel’s Foreign Service
Public diplomat specialist
Distinguished Professor at New York University’s Program of International Relations
Member of the International Advisory Council (IAC) of global strategic communications firm DC-based APCO Worldwide
Co-Founder and Principal at Israel-based consultancy Emerson Rigby Ltd
Advisor to Value Base™
Chairman of the Charney Forum for New Diplomacy

Advisor

35 years of healthcare management
Deep experience in corporate and product development, operations, marketing and sales, hospital management, and biomedical development
CEO of DaganMD
CEO and Founder of Medical Service Options, Inc.
Director of Allium Medical, Ltd.
Director IBI, Ltd
Previously co-founded ProMed Capital LLC

Advisor

20 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience, including M&A transactions, divestitures, and public equity transactions
Head of Investment Banking of Value Base™
CEO and a Director of Value Base™ Mergers & Acquisitions Ltd
Founded Y. Ephrati Capital & Management Advisors Ltd., a mid-market investment bank that was later merged into DS Apex Capital
Founded Seed2Net, an internet-related incubator focused on founding companies in the telecommunication and internet arenas
Chairman and CEO of Eden Energy Discoveries Ltd
Board member to multiple organizations including Dan Public Transportation Corporation & Group Companies, Quidie Limited, VBARE Iberian Properties SOCIMI SA, and The Israeli Litigation Funding Fund

Advisor

Chairman, Board of Trustees Group of Thirty, a private, nonprofit, consultative group on international economic and monetary affairs
Former Governor, Bank of Israel
Former Chairman, JP Morgan Chase Int’l
Former Professor, University of Chicago
Chairman, Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University
Fellow of the Econometric Society
A Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
A member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, of the Japan Society, and of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
A member of Temasek International Panel (TIP)
A member of the International Advisory Council of China Development Bank
A member of the Board of Directors of Boston Properties, Inc.
A member of the Board of Directors of the Loews Corporation

Advisor

Chief Executive Officer at EHE Health
An accomplished physician executive with a record of achievement in founding, leading, and/or turning around a variety of health care services companies
Serves on the boards of leading medical device, technology, and services companies in the US, Israel, and Brazil
Founded Franklin Health Inc. (now owned by Optum)
Previously a Partner at PwC leading Global Healthcare business

Advisor

Executive Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer, Cigna Corporation
A nationally recognized advocate for greater access, affordability, and excellence in healthcare; leads all of Cigna’s clinical policy, quality, and performance efforts
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Express Scripts
Improved health outcomes and value through e-prescribing, specialty solutions, and overall product development
Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University

Advisor

27 years experience in pharmaceutical operations, investment banking, business development, portfolio management, corporate management, and institutional equity research
Chief Strategy Officer of a pharmaceutical group comprised of Rising Pharma Holdings, Inc., Cronus Pharma, LLC, Casper Pharma, LLC, and Grace Therapeutics, Inc.
Founder and Managing Partner of QuadView Healthcare Advisors, previously named ArcLight Advisors, LLC, a healthcare investment banking and business development firm
Managing Director of Ledgemont Capital Group, LLC, an investment banking firm providing strategic and financial advisory services to growth companies with a specialty in Healthcare
Managing Partner of Third Ridge Capital Management, LLC, a long/short U.S. equity hedge fund
Chief Administrative Officer and Director of Equity Research Operations at Lehman Brothers
Managed the equity research business of Lehman’s strategic alliance with Fidelity Investments
Deputy Director of Equity Research at UBS, formerly Warburg Dillon Read
Equity research analyst covering the Specialty Pharmaceuticals industry, including Generic Drugs and Drug Delivery at Dillon, Read & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., and Furman, Selz, Inc.