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Joshua A. Kazam
President and CEO
Mr. Kazam has served as a director of Nile since September 2007. In September 2004, Mr. Kazam co-founded Two River and currently serves as Vice President and Director of Two River's managing member, Two River Group Management, LLC. Mr. Kazam also serves as an Officer and Director of Riverbank. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Kazam was a Managing Director of Paramount, where he was responsible for ongoing operations of venture investments, and as the Director of Investment for the Orion Biomedical Fund, LP. Mr. Kazam currently serves as a director of Velcera, Inc. and Arno Therapeutics, Inc., as well as several other privately-held biotechnology companies. Mr. Kazam is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Daron Evans
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Evans serves as CFO of Nile. Mr. Evans has over 13 years of professional experience in drug development financial analysis and fiscal control. Prior to joining Nile, from 2006 to 2007, Mr. Evans served as Director of Business Assessment at Vistakon, a Johnson & Johnson company, where he led efforts to improve R&D efficiency and speed to market. Prior to that, from 2004 to 2006, he was a Director of Portfolio & Business Analytics for Scios R&D, a Johnson & Johnson company, where he was responsible for financial controls and reporting for portfolio of six clinical stage programs and five preclinical stage programs. While at Scios, Mr. Evans also served as Project Manager for the European Registration Trial of nesiritide. Mr. Evans also has experience as co-founder of a biotechnology diagnostic company, and has worked as a Management Consultant in the pharmaceutical industry with Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Evans received his M.B.A. from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Southwestern Medical School & University of Texas at Arlington and his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University.
Hsiao Dee Lieu, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Vice President of Clinical Research
Dr. Lieu has over 11 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical/biotech industry including academic medicine (cardiology), molecular cardiology research, translational and clinical drug development including execution of large multinational Phase III clinical trials and responsibility for interactions with regulatory authorities and key opinion leaders in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Prior to joining Nile, Dr. Lieu served as the Director of Clinical Development for Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In this role, Dr. Lieu was responsible for the overall clinical development plan and execution for early- to late-stage intravenous and oral molecules including a large ADP antagonist program in acute coronary syndrome. Before joining Portola, Dr. Lieu served as the Director of Clinical Research and Development at CV Therapeutics, Inc. In this role, Dr. Lieu led the clinical development program for regadenoson, which included two successful large multinational Phase III trials. Dr. Lieu also worked as a researcher at the J. David Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) conducting molecular cardiology research in gene manipulation and induction of cardiomyopathy and atherosclerosis regression. Dr. Lieu currently serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division at UCSF. Dr. Lieu completed his clinical cardiology fellowship at UCSF and his residency in internal medicine at Columbia University. He received his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with distinction in molecular biology research, and his B.A. from New York University.
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