Sergio Traversa
Before joining Relmada, Dr. Traversa was the co-founder and CEO of Medeor Inc. a spinoff pharmaceutical company from Cornell University. Dr. Traversa has over twenty-five years of experience in the healthcare sector in the United States and Europe, ranging from management positions in the pharmaceutical industry to investing and strategic advisory roles. He has held financial analyst, portfolio management and strategic advisory positions at large U.S. investment firms specializing in healthcare, including Mehta and Isaly and Mehta partners, ING Barings, Merlin BioMed and Rx Capital.
Dr. Traversa was a founding partner of Ardana Capital, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology investment advisory firm. In Europe, he held the position of Area Manager for Southern Europe of Therakos Inc., a cancer and immunology division of Johnson & Johnson. Prior to Therakos, Dr. Traversa was at Eli Lilly, where he served as Marketing Manager of the Hospital Business Unit. He was also a member of the CNS team at Eli Lilly, where he participated in the launch of Prozac and the early development of Zyprexa and Cymbalta. Dr. Traversa started his career as a sales representative at Farmitalia Carlo Erba, the largest pharmaceutical company in Italy later sold to Pharmacia and now part of Pfizer.
Dr. Traversa holds a Laurea degree in Pharmacy from the University of Turin (Italy) and an MBA in Finance and International Business from the New York University Leonard Stern School of Business.
Sergio Traversa
Maged Shenouda
Maged Shenouda previously served as CFO and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for AzurRx BioPharma, Inc. Prior to his tenure at AzurRx, Mr. Shenouda was Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development and Licensing at Retrophin, Inc. Before this, Mr. Shenouda spent the bulk of his career on Wall Street as an equity research analyst. He held senior level positions at UBS, JP Morgan and Stifel Nicolaus, covering a broad range of small and large capitalization biotechnology companies. Mr. Shenouda started his sell-side equity research career at Citigroup and Bear Stearns where his coverage universe focused on U.S and European pharmaceutical companies. Before entering Wall Street, he was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Pharmaceutical Consulting practice and also spent time in pharmaceutical sales, having worked as a hospital representative and managed care specialist for Abbott Laboratories Pharmaceutical Products Division. He earned a B.S. in Pharmacy from St. John's University and is a registered pharmacist in New Jersey and California. He also received an M.B.A from Rutgers Graduate School of Management.
Maged Shenouda
Chuck Ence
Charles Ence is currently our Chief Accounting and Compliance Officer. From August 2003 until June 2019, Mr. Ence was Chief Financial Officer/Corporate Controller of New Age Beverages Corp/Xing Beverages, LLC located in Denver, Colorado. He managed all the financial affairs of New Age and their other portfolio companies helping lead the firm into becoming one of the top 100 non-alcoholic beverage companies worldwide. He helped guide the expansion of the business to ultimately penetration of 46 states domestically and 10 countries internationally, with consistent growth and profitability throughout his tenure. Mr. Ence was also instrumental in successfully uplisting the company onto the NASDAQ capital market. Prior to New Age, Mr. Ence was a senior executive, Planning Manager and Director of Finance for Quantum Corp. Following Quantum he served as a Director of Finance and Investor Relations at On Command Corp. Mr. Ence began his career at PepsiCo. During his 12 years at PepsiCo, Mr. Ence served as a financial analyst, planning supervisor, planning and analysis manager and ultimately controller.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Accounting from Southern Utah University in 1984, and obtained a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from Arizona State University School of Business in 1985.
Chuck Ence
Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly has been actively involved as an analyst, consultant and investor in the biotechnology sector for the past thirty years. He has been a Director of the Company since November, 2015. Additionally, he has been acting as a Special Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company since January 1, 2023. He began as an equity analyst at Mabon Securities in 1993, and later served in the same capacity at UBS Securities, Volpe, Brown, Whalen, ING Securities, and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Kelly was named to the inaugural Fortune Magazine All Star Analyst Team in 2000. Since 2007, Mr. Kelly has engaged in consulting for private and public biotechnology companies and for hedge funds. He currently manages his own investments and continues his industry consulting activities. Mr. Kelly holds an A.B. in biochemistry from Brown University, attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and received an M.B.A in finance from the William E. Simon School at the University of Rochester.
Paul Kelly
Raj S. Pruthi, MD
Raj Pruthi is an accomplished physician, surgeon and clinical scientist with an extensive career in academic medicine and industry and long publication history. Prior to joining Relmada, Dr. Pruthi was Chief Medical Officer at enGene Holdings Inc., where he led a global team in the development of a registrational therapeutic trial for bladder cancer. Prior to that, he was the Global Medical Affairs Leader, Bladder Cancer and Senior Medical Director, Oncology (Global – Prostate and Bladder Cancer) at Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine.
Dr. Pruthi holds multiple leadership roles within the urology community. He is the Chair of the Advisory Council for Urology of the American College of Surgeons and serves on its Board of Governors. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Urology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University/Northwell and Professor, Department of Health System Sciences, Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine at Belmont University. Previously, he served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at the University of California at San Francisco and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Dr. Pruthi is a former member of the American Board of Urology/American Urological Association Examination Committee and is Past-President for the Society of Academic Urology. He served on the Guidelines Committee and helped to develop the AUA Guidelines on the Management of NMIBC, and also served on the Bladder Cancer Guidelines Committee of the International Consultation on Urological Diseases.
Dr. Pruthi graduated from Duke University School of Medicine and completed his residency and post-graduate training in Urologic Surgery at Stanford University. He also holds a Master of Health Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Raj S. Pruthi, MD
Bipin Dalmia, PhD, MBA
Bipin Dalmia is a senior biopharmaceutical executive with nearly three decades of leadership roles across corporate strategy, portfolio management, commercial planning, business development and M&A in biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals, and global pharmaceutical companies.
Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Head of Portfolio Strategy & Business Development at Ferring Pharmaceuticals, where he established and led this new global function. During his 14-year tenure at Ferring, in addition to global business development leadership, he led the company's Uro-Oncology Franchise, including the U.S. launch and global lifecycle and manufacturing strategy for ADSTILADRIN® – the first FDA-approved intravesical gene therapy for BCG-unresponsive NMIBC patients. Beyond ADSTILADRIN, Bipin led and completed more than 20 strategic licensing, partnership and M&A transactions across multiple therapeutic areas, modalities and development stages, while strengthening the company's portfolio management and capital allocation capabilities.
Prior to Ferring, Bipin held business development leadership positions at Biolex Therapeutics and earlier served in strategy, new product planning and business development roles at Syngenta and Novartis. He began his career as a research scientist. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Ferring Ventures S.A. and on the Board of Directors of FinVector Oy.
Bipin Dalmia holds a PhD and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from Drake University.
