
About Us
Board of Directors

Mr. Gangolli is President, North America of Greenwich Biosciences, a GW Pharmaceuticals PLC Company. Mr. Gangolli is responsible for building out the US commercial infrastructure and spearheading the launch of its lead therapeutic product Epidiolex®, which is indicated for the treatment of two orphan epilepsy indications, Dravet Syndrome and Lennox Gastaut Syndrome. Epidiolex launched in the US in November of 2018. Prior to joining GW Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Gangolli served as President of the North American Pharmaceutical division of Allergan, Inc. for 11 years and was a member of the Executive Committee of Allergan, where he was responsible for a 1,400-person commercial operation with sales exceeding $3.8 billion in 2014. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, US Eye Care at Allergan, during a period in which this division launched eight new products, helping to drive growth at more than 20% annually over a five-year period. Prior to Allergan, Mr. Gangolli served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing at VIVUS, Inc., where he facilitated the successful transition of the company from a research and development start-up into a niche pharmaceutical company. Before VIVUS, Mr. Gangolli served in a number of increasingly senior marketing roles at Syntex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Ortho-Cilag Pharmaceuticals Ltd in the UK. Mr. Gangolli received a BSc (Honors) degree in Applied Chemistry and Business Studies from Kingston University in England.
Julian Gangolli
Board Member

Kirti Ganorkar is the Chief Executive Officer of the India Business at Sun Pharma. Sun Pharma is the world’s fourth largest specialty generic pharmaceutical company, producing a comprehensive portfolio of products targeting a wide spectrum of chronic and acute treatments. Sun’s manufacturing capabilities span generics, branded generics, difficult-to-make technology intensive products, over-the-counter (OTC), anti-retrovirals (ARVs), Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and intermediates, and with 45 manufacturing sites and 2000 marketed products, they have a presence in more than 150 countries.
Kirti Ganorkar
Board Member

Dan Janney is the Managing Partner of Alta Partners. Dan Janney joined Alta Partners at its founding in 1996. He has nearly 25 years of successful early-stage investing experience in life sciences. Dan’s focus on working with talented entrepreneurs to create companies around novel insights in biology and new approaches to drug discovery has led to the funding and development of 35 companies. Prior to Alta, Dan was a senior investment banker at Montgomery Securities. Dan is currently on the board of directors of several public and private companies, including Allakos (NASDAQ:ALLK), Be Biopharma, Curasen Therapeutics, ImmuneID, Krystal Biotech (NASDAQ:KYRS), Lassen Therapeutics, Novome Biotechnologies, and Prolacta Bioscience. In addition, he led Alta’s investments in Astex Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Supergen), Cellective (acquired by Medimmune), ChemGenex (ASX:CXS acquired by Cephalon), CoTherix (NASDAQ:CTRX acquired by Actellion), Definity Health (acquired by United Health), Dynavax (NASDAQ:DVAX), Endonetics (acquired by Medtronic), Esperion Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ESPR), Ilex Oncology (NASDAQ:ILXO acquired by Millennium Pharmaceuticals), InterMune (NASDAQ:ITMN acquired by Roche), LJL Biosystems (NASDAQ:LJLB acquired by Molecular Devices), Mako Surgical (NASDAQ:MAKO acquired by Stryker) and Triangle Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VIRS acquired by Gilead). Dan is a member of The President’s Council of the J. David Gladstone Institutes and the chair of the Board of Directors of the California Academy of Sciences. He also serves on the Board of Regents of Georgetown University. He holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dan Janney
Board Member

Krish Krishnan
Chairman of the Board

Suma Krishnan
Board Member

Chris Mason
Board Member

Dino A. Rossi
Board Member

Dr. Sutherland was President of Translate Bio prior to its acquisition by Sanofi. Before joining Translate Bio, Dr. Sutherland spent seven years at Sanofi, most recently as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Medical Affairs for Sanofi Genzyme, and prior to that, Head of Rare Diseases Development. Dr. Sutherland's strategic le leadership in clinical development and medical affairs has been critical to the development and launch of medicines for lysosomal storage diseases, rare blood and other genetic diseases, and pulmonary and immunological diseases. Before joining the biopharmaceutical industry, Dr. Sutherland was Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, where he cared for patients and led an NIH-funded clinical and translational research program focused on severe asthma and other complicated pulmonary diseases.
Rand Sutherland
Board Member