2014 Speakers

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  • Jack M. Anthony, Founder, BioMentorz
  • John C. Balzano, JD, Special Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP
  • Pey Ni Chan, Managing Director, CMIC Asia-Pacific, Pte. Ltd.
  • Helen Chen, Head, China Life Sciences, L.E.K. Consulting
  • Do-Hyun Cho, PhD, President & CEO, W Medical Strategies
  • Peter B. Corr, Co-Founder and Managing General Partner, Auven Therapeutics
  • Robert DeBenedetto, President & CEO, SFJ Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Yuan-Hua Ding, PhD, Executive Director, Head of External R&D Innovation – Asia/Pacific, Pfizer Worldwide Research & Development
  • Iain D. Dukes, MA, DPhil, Senior Vice President, Business Development & Licensing, Merck Research Laboratories
  • Jamie Egan, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Anges-MG, Inc.
  • Jay N. Fastow, JD, Partner, Ballard Spahr
  • David P. Flores, Co-Founder, President & CEO, BioCentury Publications Inc.
  • James Foley, Managing Director, Aqua Partners
  • Chris Francis, PhD, Vice President, Business Development, WAVE Life Sciences
  • Les Funtleyder, Director of Strategic Investments, OPKO Health
  • John M. Gill, Co-Founder and former President & CEO (Former) of Tetralogic Pharmaceuticals
  • Glen Giovannetti, Global Biotechnology Leader, EY, LLP
  • Martyn D. Greenacre, MBA, Former Chairman, BMP Sunstone
  • Kimberly Ha, Senior Director, FTI Consulting
  • Ed Haug, Partner, Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP
  • Charles Hsu, PhD, Managing Partner, Crosswave Management
  • James Huang, Managing Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers China
  • Dr. Judy Jarecki-Black, JD, Global Head, Intellectual Property, Merial Limited
  • Tae-Wan Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Columbia University Medical Center
  • Chizuko Koseki, Founder & Director, transB Ltd.
  • Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies & Former Science Advisor, National Diet, Japan
  • Wei Li, PhD, Executive Partner-China, Fidelity Biosciences
  • Anjiang (Vincent) Liu, Managing Director, International Investment & Chief Representative, NY Office, FosunPharma Group
  • Martina Molsbergen, Chief Executive Officer, C14 Consulting Group
  • Keiko Oishi, Senior Managing Director, CMIC Co., Ltd.
  • Tomomi Okamoto, Sofia Hill Venture Partners
  • Grace L. Pan, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • Andrew L. Pecora, MD, Chairman, TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals Corporation and Chief Visionary Officer, Neostem, Inc.
  • Jurij Petrin, MD, President and CEO, Pharmaceutical Regulatory Services, Inc.
  • Nathan (Nick) B. Pliam, MD, PhD, Scientist-in-Residence, Bay City Capital LLC
  • Terence G. Porter, PhD, Vice President, Search & Evaluation, Global Business Development, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.
  • Byung-Geon Rhee, PhD, President & CEO, Green Cross Holdings
  • Alan Seem, Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
  • Richard L. Sherman, JD, Senior Vice President, Strategic Transactions, & General Counsel, Tetralogic Pharmaceuticals
  • Scott A. Siegel, PhD, Founder, Milestone Life Sciences, LLC
  • Anthony Y. Sun, MD, Partner, Aisling Capital
  • Goro Takeda, Venture Partner, Sofinnova Ventures
  • Mark Tang, PhD, MBA, Founder and Chairman, GCA Therapeutics, Ltd.
  • Theodore Torphy, PhD, Senior Vice President, Research & Development, BioMotiv
  • Joseph Vacca, PhD, Senior Vice President, Early Success Sharing Partnerships, WuXi AppTec
  • Alex Waldron, Vice President Global Commercial Operations, EPIRUS Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Wenyong Wang, PhD, Managing Director, Merchant & Investment Banking, Burrill Securities
  • Harold R. Werner, Co-Founder, HealthCare Ventures
  • Gunther Winkler, PhD, Founder & CEO, Biometheus LLC
  • W. Vincent Xiang, PhD. MBA, Managing Director, Vice President, International Investments and Business Development, Humanwell Healthcare Group
  • Alan Yan, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Beijing SynerCare Pharma Tech Co., Ltd.
  • Debra Yu, MD, Managing Director, Labrador Advisors
  • Peony Yu, MD, Vice President, Clinical Development, FibroGen, Inc.
  • Wei Zhang, PhD, Head, Corporate Development, Good Start Genetics Inc.