LEADERSHIP
BEAU GARRETT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
BEAU GARRETT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
In a pharmaceutical career of 22+ years, Beau has experience leading vision, strategy, and execution for new product development, go-to-market planning, global product launches, and business development at both enterprise and start-up organizations (including F20 pharma and life sciences leaders). Having significant stints at both the innovator/sponsor and the CDMO, Beau’s understanding of the pharmaceutical product ecosystem from early to development, to manufacturing, to launch, marketing, and through distribution, provides great value-add consultative perspective for clients. Beau’s career includes 15 years at Boehringer Ingelheim in Branded Human Pharmaceuticals and 5 years at a fully integrated complex drug CDMO where he was CEO and Board Director (Tapemark, acquired by LTS). Beau is an investor in American Injectables, a Board Director, and on site each day.
BEN BOLING
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
BEN BOLING
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Ben brings more than 30 years of operational expertise with drug manufacturing on a global level. He specializes in new plant startups, site remediations, lean transformations, technology/product transfers, integration of operations and quality units, and building effective organizational structure. Ben focuses on building, leading, and developing high-performance teams that demonstrate respect, trust, integrity, and accountability.
MICHELE JANIS
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
MICHELE JANIS
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Michele joined American Injectables in early January 2023 and is responsible for the financial management of the Company. Michele has over 25 years of financial management expertise in a variety of industries including life sciences, healthcare, software, and manufacturing.
Michele possesses a strong track record as a strategic finance leader and business partner and has played a key role in various M&A and debt & equity financing transactions over the course of her career.
Prior to joining American Injectables, Michele served as both the VP of Finance and CFO of OptiNose, a publicly-traded specialty pharmaceutical company, where she was instrumental in developing capital strategy and leading the evolution of the finance and accounting functions from a private development stage to a publicly-traded commercial stage company through its IPO. Earlier in her career, Michele served as the Director of Business Analysis and Planning at Take Care Health Systems, a Walgreens healthcare services company, Divisional CFO for Creative Labs’ OEM division, and Corporate Controller for Land O’ Lakes, a milk distributor and dairy products manufacturer. Michele also simultaneously served as CFO & Controller to several pharmaceutical and technology-based emerging growth companies.
TRAVIS ALLEN
VP, STRATEGY
TRAVIS ALLEN
VP, STRATEGY
Travis is responsible for business development, corporate strategy, and companywide project management. Prior to joining American Injectables, he held roles of increasing responsibility in operations and business development at Actavent Pharmaceuticals along with experience in 503B outsourcing for hospital markets. Previously, he worked at the biotechnology firm Amgen in Scientific Affairs. Mr. Allen received his Pharm.D. from the University of Florida.
YOARRYS RIVERA
HEAD OF QUALITY
YOARRYS RIVERA
HEAD OF QUALITY
Yoarrys Rivera joined American Injectables in August 2021. Yoarrys has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry with an established career in Quality Assurance at organizations such as Pfizer, Inc., Abbott Diagnostics, Ltd., and Capsugel. She is responsible for Quality Assurance and Compliance, providing GMP oversight and guidance to support manufacturing, commissioning, qualification, product transfer; and managing the Quality Management System to industry standards and regulatory requirements.
BRITTANY SIQUEIROS
SVP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
BRITTANY SIQUEIROS
SVP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Brittany has joined American Injectables as the Senior Vice President of Business Development. She brings with her more than 16 years of specialized expertise in the pharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing sector. She previously held Business Development leadership roles at Curia Global, Inc., Nitto Avecia Pharma Services and NovaCina where she demonstrated her ability to grow and foster sales teams and processes while exceeding revenue targets. Her deep industry insights and sales leadership are poised to propel the company toward achieving its sales and revenue objectives.
SANDRA FOSTER
EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE, QUALITY, REGULATORY, AND CMC
SANDRA FOSTER
EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE, QUALITY, REGULATORY, AND CMC
Dr. Foster brings a unique blend of scientific knowledge and Quality/Regulatory experience to the American Injectables team. She began her scientific career as a Medical Technologist (MT, ASCP) working in hospital laboratories. From the clinical lab she transitioned to research before going to graduate school. She earned a Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University. Sandra spent 12 years in clinical phase biotechnology companies in roles of increasing responsibility from pre-clinical research and product development to directing the manufacture of clinical trial material to leading Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance. She designed ISO 14644-compliant clean room facilities for the manufacture of cellular therapy products for clinical trials and implemented quality systems to support those activities. During her years in biotechnology, she served on medical device design control teams and has extensive experience in medical and regulatory writing. She has designed, written, and implemented process validations, operator qualifications, aseptic process simulations, comparability protocols, and has authored multiple CMC sections for INDs and briefing documents for FDA meetings. In 2012 Dr. Foster started her own consulting company leveraging her scientific, Quality, and Regulatory skills. As a consultant, client projects included developing Quality Systems, implementing electronic document control systems, leading design teams for medical device product development, authoring DHF deliverables, potency assay development, stability studies, equipment qualifications, cGMP and GLP training, translating R&D projects into cGMP-compliant manufacturing, SOP writing, gap analyses, supplier audits and preparing for pre-approval inspections. Recent projects included managing design controls for a successful 510(k) clearance, managing a CRO for the device side of a biologics/device combination product, leading the CMC team for a BLA, and performing GMP audits and gap assessments.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SUBHANU SAXENA
CHAIRMAN
SUBHANU SAXENA
CHAIRMAN
As Chairman of the Board, Subhanu Saxena joins American Injectables from New Rhein Healthcare Investors. At New Rhein, he serves as a Managing Partner since 2017. Subhanu is an accomplished executive with experience in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia, and has worked in pharmaceuticals, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), consulting, and banking.
Prior to joining New Rhein, Subhanu was the Managing Director & Global Chief Executive Officer of Cipla, a global pharmaceutical manufacturing company with a presence in over 170 countries from 2013 to 2016. Prior to Cipla, from 2009 to 2012 Subhanu served as a Pharma Executive Committee Member for Novartis Pharmaceuticals responsible for Global Product Strategy and Commercialization, having previously been Country President and Pharma CEO of Novartis UK and Ireland from 2005 to 2009. In 2016, he was awarded a Finance Monthly “CEO of the Year” award for India-based CEOs.
Subhanu has an MBA from INSEAD and an MA (with Honors) in Engineering Science from Oxford University. He speaks six languages, loves loud music, plays guitar, and is a lecturer and teacher of Sanskrit and Vedan.
GREG PAREKH
BOARD MEMBER
GREG PAREKH
BOARD MEMBER
Greg Parekh led the investment into American Injectables and serves as a Board member. Greg founded New Rhein Healthcare Investors in 2010 and is a Managing Partner. Before launching New Rhein, Greg led the integration planning for Alcon on behalf of Novartis AG, where he previously ran the Mergers & Acquisitions group from 2004 to 2009. During his time at Novartis, Greg helped execute over 20 transactions with a total deal value of more than $70 billion. Prior to joining Novartis, Greg headed Deutsche Bank’s European Healthcare Group from 1998 to 2004. Greg joined Deutsche Bank from Bear Stearns in New York, where he started his career in 1995 as an associate in the Life Sciences group.
Greg has served as a director of the companies in which New Rhein made its initial deal-by-deal investments, Novagali Pharma, SA (ophthalmology), Chase Pharmaceuticals (Alzheimer’s), and Biocartis BV (oncology diagnostics), for which Greg also served as Chief Executive Officer from 2011 to 2013. Greg presently serves on the boards of New Rhein Fund 18 portfolio companies, Softhale NV and Neuraptive Therapeutics, Inc., and is a director of Cancerlinq, a big-data digital healthcare platform and wholly owned subsidiary of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Greg holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University, an executive leadership program certificate from Harvard Business School, and a dual-major B.A. from University of Rochester (magna cum laude). Greg’s hobbies include gourmet cooking, downhill skiing, and music.
CARLO DE NOTARISTEFANI
BOARD MEMBER
CARLO DE NOTARISTEFANI
BOARD MEMBER
Carlo is an international operations senior executive with global technical, operational, and P&L experience. He has deep expertise in designing and operating global supply chains in complex regulatory environments, leading accretive M&A activity, devising and executing value creating strategies in global markets.
Since May 2020, Carlo has been the lead advisor for Manufacturing and Supply Chain to Operation Warp Speed/Federal Covid Response, the USG initiative to support acceleration of development and supply of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics. He has collaborated with the sponsors, suppliers and CDMOs to ensure the fast scale up of manufacturing and distribution for the US.
In Carlo’s most recent corporate position, he was Executive VP of Operations at Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc. In this role he was responsible for all Manufacturing, Technology and Capital Investments, Supply Chain, Quality and Compliance, Procurement operations, as well as the global API and CMO business. Carlo retired from this position at the end of 2019.
Before joining Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc in 2012, Carlo was the President Technical Operations and Global Support Functions for Bristol Myers Squibb between 2004 and 2011, where he significantly contributed to the transformation into a focused biopharma company.
Carlo received his Doctor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from University of Naples − Naples, Italy.