Mr. Mark Germain - Chairman of the Board - joined the board in 2018, and was appointed Chairman 2019. He has been involved as a founder, director, chairman of the board, and/or investor in over twenty companies in the biotech field and assisted many of them in arranging corporate partnerships, acquiring technology, entering into mergers and acquisitions, and executing financings and going public transactions. He graduated from New York University School of Law in 1975, Order of the Coif, and was a partner in a New York law firm practicing corporate and securities law before leaving in 1986. Since then, and until he entered the biotech field in 1991, he served in senior executive capacities, including as president of a public company that was sold in 1991. In addition to being a director of BiondVax, Mr. Germain is a Managing Director at The Aentib Group, a boutique merchant bank, and has served as a director on the board of Pluristem Therapeutics since 2007, including time as Co-Chairman. Mr. Germain also serves or has served as a director in over half a dozen publicly traded biotech companies. He is also a co-founder and director of a number of private companies in and outside the biotech field.
Mr. Jay Green, CPA, CA, MAcc, recently completed a 19-year career with GSK across several progressive leadership positions in GSK’s three businesses of consumer healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and vaccines, as well as corporate development. He also led GSK’s global enterprise resource planning (ERP) program, one of the largest IT-enabled business transformation programs in the company’s history. Mr. Green most recently served from 2014 to 2020 as Senior Vice President, Finance and CFO of GSK’s global vaccines business. Since 2020, Mr. Green has served in an advisory role to Gavi for COVAX, an international initiative to support equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant who holds a Master of Accounting from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Morris Laster is a healthcare executive and entrepreneur with close to 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. His expertise lies in the identification, development, management and financing of advanced biomedical drugs and technologies. Dr. Laster is the CEO of Clil Medical Ltd a biomedical consultancy company. He is also the Medical Venture Partner at OurCrowd (www.ourcrowd.com) where he has led 28 investments. He is an OurCrowd Board member of HiL, BrainQ and Dreamed. Additionally, he serves as the Chairman of Oncohost as well as a board member at BiondVax (NASDAQ:BVXV). He has founded 6 companies that have gone public in the US, UK and Israel. He was a co-founder and CEO of Kitov Pharmaceuticals that has FDA approval for its drug Consensi. Previously, (2003-2009) he was the founding CEO of BioLineRx Ltd. (TASE:BLRX). From 1997-2002 he was the Chairman and CEO of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KERX). He began his career as a VP of medical venture capital at Paramount Capital in NYC. Dr. Laster received his MD from Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY in 1990 and a BS in Biology from SUNY Albany.
Dr. Yael Margolin has more than 35 years of experience as senior manager, CEO and board member in venture capital and in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, leading strategic and business planning, financing, team building, product development and corporate partnerships. From 2005 to 2019, Dr. Margolin served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Gamida Cell Ltd. (Nasdaq: GMDA), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, leading the company from preclinical development through phase 3 international registration studies. Prior to that, Dr. Margolin was Vice President of Denali Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm focused on healthcare, and a program manager at Teva Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Margolin holds a BSc in biology and a MSc Cum Laude from the department of microbiology, both from Tel Aviv University in Israel, a Ph.D. from the department of membrane research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and was a post-doctoral associate at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Mr. Samuel Moed served until 2020 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS; NYSE: BMY), a global biopharma company focused on innovative therapeutics, where for six years he led the strategic direction of the company with close linkage to all of its major businesses, functions and geographies. Previously, Mr. Moed oversaw strategy for BMS’s Worldwide Pharmaceuticals Group, encompassing a range of global strategic initiatives, and managed a global portfolio of strategic alliances. He also led a number of businesses including as President of U.S. Pharmaceuticals and as President of Worldwide Consumer Healthcare. Mr. Moed received a BA in history from Columbia University in New York City.
Mr. Adi Raviv is a senior financial executive with a career spanning over 30 years. Since April 2016, Mr. Raviv has been a Principal at Capacity Funding LLC, a company providing working capital solutions to small businesses. Prior to that, Mr. Raviv served in a chief financial officer position in two other companies that provide similar types of funding alternatives – New Era Lending from May 2015 to March 2016, and Kapitus (formerly, Strategic Funding Source) from 2009 to 2014. Mr. Raviv has extensive capital markets, cash management, corporate finance, investor relations, restructuring, tax and treasury, and transactional experience along with knowledge of the private equity and venture capital arenas. Mr. Raviv co-founded THCG, Inc., a publicly traded technology merchant banking and consulting company (where he was also CFO), and has been involved with companies in challenging startup, growth, and turnaround environments. Mr. Raviv has served on the boards of directors of many private and several public companies, as well as various non-profit entities. He received a bachelor’s degree in International Relations with honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA, with honors, from Columbia University in New York City.
Mr. Amir Reichman was appointed as BiondVax’s CEO in 2021. Born and educated in Israel, Mr. Reichman most recently served as Head of Global Vaccines Engineering Core Technologies and Asset Management at GSK Vaccines headquarters in Belgium. Prior to his role in global vaccines engineering, he served as Senior Director Global GSK Vaccines Supply Chain. Mr. Reichman joined GSK in 2015 after its acquisition of Novartis Vaccines. At Novartis Vaccines, he held various leadership roles of increasing responsibility in its Global Vaccines Supply Chain Management organization located in Holly Springs, NC, USA. In 2003, Mr. Reichman’s academic work at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev contributed to the founding of NeuroDerm Ltd., an Israeli company focused on transdermal drug delivery systems that was acquired by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma in 2017 for $1.1B. He was NeuroDerm’s first employee and served as the company’s Chief Engineer and Senior Scientist until his departure in 2009. Mr. Reichman earned an M.Sc. in Biotechnology Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and an MBA in Finance and Health Care Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Professor Avner Rotman served as Chairman of the Board at BiondVax until 2019. After an academic career at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Rotman founded Bio-Dar, a company specializing in controlled release Pharmaceuticals, Health and Nutrition, where he served as President and CEO for 15 years until the company was sold to the Machteshim-Agan/Lycored Group. In 2000 he founded Rodar Technologies, a company focused on technology transfer in the high tech industry, where he currently serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Prof. Rotman is extensively involved with biotechnology incubators in Israel and with the life science business community. He is Founder and Chairman of the Foundation of Cardiovascular Research in Israel. Prof. Rotman received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.