SPEAKERS

Anurag Agarwal
Principal, Osage University Partners

Dario C. Altieri, M.D.
President and CEO, Director of the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center, and Robert and Penny Fox Distinguished Professor, The Wistar Institute

Ian Anderson
Senior Director of Research, CBRE

Melina Blees, PhD
Site Director
BioLabs Philadelphia

Tracy Brala
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Partnerships, University City Science Center

Neil Brazitis
Senior Managing Director Company: Newmark Real Estate (Newmark)

Clifford Brechner
Vice President, Colliers Life Sciences Practice Group

Sharon R. Clinton, SHRM-CP
Co-Founder & COO
HelaPlex

Joe Corcoran
Executive Vice President of The Discovery Labs, Senior Vice President for MLP Ventures

Alan W. Flake, MD
Professor of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director, Children’s Center for Fetal Research
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Lauren Gilchrist
Managing Director – Research
Longfellow Real Estate Partners

John Grady
NE Region Executive & Senior Vice President
Wexford Science + Technology

Anthony Green, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA

Claire Marrazzo Greenwood
Senior Vice President, Economic Competitiveness
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia

Stephan A. Grupp, MD, PhD
Section Chief, Cellular Therapy and Transplant, Division of Oncology; Director, Susan P. and Stephen S. Kelly Center for Cancer Immunotherapy

Karen Griffith Gryga
Chief Operating Officer, Biomeme, Inc.

Eric Hacher, PhD
Vice President, Head of Manufacturing, Spark Therapeutics

Louis P. Kassa III
President
Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center

Nancy J Kelley
Founding Member, Builds BIO+ and President & CEO, Nancy J Kelley + Associates

Todd Kilbaugh
Endowed Chair of Translational Science and Innovation, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Medical Director, EMCO Center at CHOP

Jessica Lee
Clinical Science and Operations, Spirovant

Tia Lyles-Williams
Founder & CEO
LucasPye BIO

Anthony Maher
Partner/ President at University Place Associates

Kevin Mahoney
CEO
University of Pennsylvania Hospital System

Jennifer Manning, MPA
Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Partnerships, The Center for Breakthrough Medicines

Travis McCready
Head of Life Sciences, Industries Americas, JLL

Dean E. Miller
President & CEO, PACT

Alan Moore
Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Breakthrough Medicines

Stephen G. Nappi
Associate Vice President, Technology Commercialization and Business Development,
Temple University

Scott Nissenbaum
President and CEO, Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Rosaleen Morris Oskanian
General Counsel & Secretary Vitara Biomedical, Inc.

Matt Plevelich
Principal
NewSpring

Jamie Rash
Regional Director
Keystone

Katie Reuther
Executive Director, Penn Health-Tech University of Pennsylvania

Aleister J. Saunders, PhD
Executive Vice Provost for Research & Innovation and Professor, Drexel University

Mitchel W. Simpler
Founding Member, Builds BIO+ and Managing Partner Emeritus, JB&B

George Skillin
Senior Vice President and Head of Engineering, EHS, Spark Therapeutics

Tony Sorrentino
Associate Vice President, Office of the Executive Vice President
University of Pennsylvania

Sam Woods Thomas
Philadelphia Department of Commerce
Senior Director of Business Development

Nelson Way
Director, Leasing and Development, Ensemble Real Estate Investments

Steve Wray
Senior Vice President and Principal
Econsult Solutions, Inc.
