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Mr Christian Nicks
Non-Executive Chairman Christian was appointed as a Director and Chairman in July 2016. He is an investment banker with over 18 years of experience working in Australia, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. He has advised on some of the largest transactions in the healthcare sector in Australia. He spent over 10 years at Goldman Sachs working in the healthcare, telecoms, industrials, financial sponsors and mining sectors. In 2010, he left Goldman Sachs to become Head of Investment Banking at Investec Australia and led a team of professionals to substantially grow Investec’s advisory business. He left Investec in 2014 to establish Valkyrie Corporate Advisory Partners, which provides specialised investment banking and corporate advisory services. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
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Dr Amanda Reese
Non-Executive Director Amanda was appointed as a Director in July 2016. She is a commercial strategy and licensing specialist with over 18 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry locally and overseas. She spent over 12 years at CSL from 2002 to 2015, most recently as Associate Director for In-Licensing. At CSL she gained broad experience across business development, regulatory affairs, medical affairs, R&D commercialisation, brand management and in-licensing roles. Her extensive commercial expertise is applied to her current executive role as Director Commercialisation and Business Development at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre whom she joined in May 2019 after 4 years at Paranta Biosciences in a similar role. She commenced her career in specialty pharmaceuticals at AstaMedica in 1997. She has experience in a growth-stage, entrepreneurial company whilst at Optiscan Pty Ltd from 1998 to 2002. She has a Bachelor of Science with Honours and PhD from Monash University. |
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Dr Timothy Morgan
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Founder Tim is a founder of the Company and has been a Director since 2005. He was a founder and Director of Business Development at Acrux Limited. He has more than 18 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He commenced his career at Glaxo in 1992 then undertook his higher degree research training at Monash University from 1994 to 1998 before founding Acrux Limited in 1999 and Lachesis Biosciences in August 2005. He has a Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours and PhD from Monash University. He is a registered Pharmacist in Australia. His PhD research was competitively recognised both locally and internationally. To date, three prescription pharmaceutical products for which he was named as co-inventor have received marketing approval. |