Dr. Maria Fardis
Dr. Maria Fardis joined Iovance Biotherapeutics as President and Chief Executive Officer and was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2016. Since joining, the Company has been transformed from an early-stage development company to a company with multiple late-stage programs involving lifileucel and LN-145 for treatment of multiple solid tumors. Dr. Fardis served as the Chief Operating Officer of Acerta Pharma B.V., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, from January 2015 to March 2016, where she worked on the development of Calquence® until the company’s acquisition by AstraZeneca. From 2011 to 2014, she worked at Pharmacyclics, Inc., where she was a key contributor in the creation of a broad clinical program leading to global approvals for Imbruvica® in multiple hematologic malignancies, and where she served as Chief of Oncology Operations and Alliances. Prior to joining Pharmacyclics, from August 2001 to April 2011, Dr. Fardis held increasingly senior positions in Medicinal Chemistry and the project and portfolio management department at Gilead Sciences, Inc., where she was involved with multiple therapeutic areas including antivirals, oncology, and cardiovascular therapeutics and worked on the development and life cycle management of Letairis®. Dr. Fardis received her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.S. summa cum laude, in chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Fardis holds an M.B.A., with highest honors, from Golden Gate University.
Tround Lund
Nicholas Jonsson
Dr Rob Kinley
Frank Wooten
Yehuda Elram
Charlie Guy
Charlie is co-founder and Managing Director of LettUs Grow, an agricultural technology company on a mission to reduce the waste and carbon footprint of fresh produce, whilst increasing the sustainability and resilience of our global food system for future generations. With a background in renewable energy consultancy and a masters in Engineering Design from the University of Bristol, Charlie is a proponent of tech for good and passionate about all manners of sustainability, whether in food, energy, resource efficiency, waste valorisation or the circular economy.
With LettUs Grow, Charlie has won Shell’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2019, been a finalist in the international Green Challenge sustainability award and won numerous awards in the sustainability and tech for good space, including multi-category winners at the 2018 UK Tech Founder of the Year Awards and the Vodafone Techstarter Awards.
Andrew Wyne
Sophie Ryan
Sophie is CEO of the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) - a leadership group representing over 40% of the global farmed salmon industry committed to continuous improvements in their sustainability performance. Her work focuses on motivating environmental improvements, developing effective communication strategies to improve industry transparency, and building multi-stakeholder relationships to help achieve the group’s sustainability goals. Having worked with the group since it’s conception in 2013, Sophie has supported the growth of the group to where it is today and helped construct and launch the first industry-wide Sustainability Report in the food sector. Sophie is also a member of the Champions Network to the United Nations Food Systems Summit.
