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Our Management Team
Kenneth C. Aldrich,
Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, has been active
in venture capital investing and private equity since 1975. He is Co-founder and
Chairman of International Stem Cell Corporation (ISCO), a Managing Director of
Convergent Ventures, an early-stage life sciences investment company, and an
active member of Tech Coast Angels. Through those entities and predecessor
companies, he has provided early-stage funding and management for a
variety of biomedical and technology start-ups, including WaveTec Vision
Systems, an ophthalmic device company (as a Director and co-founder), Neurion
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a drug discovery and evaluation company (as a Director
and co-founder), and Orfid Corporation, a developer of organic transistors (as a
founder and financial advisor). He is also a director of Green Dot Corporation,
the world’s largest issuer of prepaid debit cards. Mr. Aldrich holds degrees,
with honors, from both Harvard University and Harvard Law School.
E-Mail: kaldrich@intlstemcell.com.
Jeffrey Janus, President,
has a proven track record extending over eighteen years of creating profitable
commercial cell based businesses and building corporate value as a result. Jeffrey was a founder of
Lifeline Cell Technology, the keystone company to ISCO’s portfolio of cellular
companies. He led in the
development and commercialization of Clonetics Corporation and the Clonetics
brand of human cell products for both research and clinical use. Clonetics is
the leading brand of human-cell based products, well known for quality and
innovation. That company was successfully sold in 1995 after ten consecutive
years of profitable growth exceeding 20%. Mr. Janus foresaw the need for human
cells in therapy and created businesses in the contract manufacturing of human
cells and culture media and human cells for clinical use. He has organized
businesses providing unique research products using living cells to conduct drug
screening in the pharmaceutical industry, product testing in the consumer
products industry and basic research at Universities and Government
laboratories. Critical staff from Clonetics Corporation agreed to join Lifeline
largely based on the success of working Mr. Janus in the past. Mr. Janus has a
MBA and a Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry.
E-Mail: JanusJ@lifelinecelltech.com.
William B. Adams, CPA,
CFO and Co-Founder, has 30 years of experience in the corporate
consulting and financing arenas. Mr. Adams has provided seed capital and
secondary and bridge financing to numerous start-up companies both individually
and as a manager of various private investment partnerships. He is a Managing
Member of Convergent Investors, LLC (also known as "CV-I"). Mr. Adams served as
CFO of Neurion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a CV-I portfolio company. Through
investments prior to the formation of Convergent Ventures, Mr. Adams is a
co-founder of WaveTec Vision Systems, an ophthalmic device company and Lifeline
Cell Technology, LLC. He served as President of Wm. Adams Accountancy
Corporation and was a founder of Dimensional Planning Group, a management
consulting and financial planning company. Previously, Mr. Adams was an
accountant at Ernst & Ernst (now Ernst & Young). Mr. Adams holds a B.S. in
Accounting from California State University, Long Beach and is on the alumni
Board of Ernst & Young in Los Angeles.
E-mail: wadams@intlstemcell.com.
Elena Revazova, Ph.D.,
M.D., Chief Scientific Officer,
is one of the world's
experts in creating immortal cell lines without the introduction of cancer
causing factors. Dr. Revazova was a leading cell biologist in the Soviet Union
before coming to the U.S. eight years ago. She is now a US citizen. She
has personally created or supervised the creation and patenting of over 50
different cell models that include, stomach, colon, liver, renal, lung, muscle
and skin cells and has also created stable human cell lines from tumors of
various organs and tissues Dr. Revazova’s
access to the leading scientists and research
institutes in the former Soviet Union has proven to be an invaluable asset to
Lifeline. Those relationships are expected to continue to add value, even though
the Company’s base of operations is in the United States.
Jeremy Hammond, Director of Quality Control, has over eighteen
years of experience developing human cell based products and the quality control
systems critical for their manufacture. He created and implemented the quality
control systems that were responsible for making Clonetics products world renown
for consistency and reproducibility. These quality control systems are the
standard for companies currently manufacturing human cell based products. Mr.
Hammond is expert in the field of both serum-containing and serum-free media
formulations and in the purification of human cells, fields critical for
therapeutic applications of cell culture technology.
Gregory S. Keller,
M.D., Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor,
is Co- Director of Facial Plastic Surgery, Division of Head and Neck Surgery at
the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been involved in medical
product development and applications for 26 years, and holds numerous patents on
emerging medical technologies that have successfully transitioned to active
medical products. Dr. Keller has been involved in cell technologies and their
applications for the last 10 years.
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