Before co-founding Cybrexa, Per was President & CEO of CyVek, where in just over four years he led the development, commercialization, and exit of a novel automated immunoassay system that was acquired by Bio-Techne. Prior to that, he was the President of inc.jet, Inc., a startup that led the introduction of thermal inkjet printing in the commercial printing space. Per has undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business, and a Master’s Degree in Management from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Vishwas brings more than 23 years of executive experience in addition to extensive drug discovery and research experience. He most recently served as Chief Scientific Officer of Karos Pharmaceuticals where he was hired as the first employee and served as the CSO until its acquisition in August of 2017. Prior to joining Karos, Vishwas was a Senior Director at Pfizer, which he joined in 1995 and left to join Karos in June of 2010. Before that, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

Stephen brings more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry and financial leadership in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Cybrexa, he served as Senior Vice President of Finance at Inozyme Pharma; Vice President, North America Commercial Finance, Global G&A at Alexion Pharmaceuticals; and Director, Financial Planning and Analysis at Pfizer. Stephen holds a Master of Business Administration in finance from Boston College and a Bachelor of Science in business finance from Providence College.

Dr. Needle brings more than 20 years of industry experience in clinical, business development, regulatory, and safety. Prior to joining Cybrexa, he served as CMO for Aveo Oncology, Array BioPharma, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and Consortium, and was also Vice President, Pediatric Strategy at Celgene. He has three regulatory approvals to his credit including Erbitux for the treatment of colon cancer in the US and Fotivda for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma in the US and the EU. He holds a Doctor of Medicine from State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, and a Bachelor of Arts in physics at Binghamton University. Dr. Needle is a board-certified pediatric hematologist/oncologist who completed his pediatric oncology training at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Center/University of Washington in Seattle and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX.

Sophia Gayle is a biologist specializing in early drug development and biomarker discovery. Sophia trained in Tian Xu’s laboratory at Yale University in the development and application of novel forward-genetics technologies in human embryonic stem cells. After her PhD, she worked in the field of drug repurposing for oncology and rare disease indications.  Sophia joined Cybrexa in January of 2019 and leads both in vitro and in vivo biology teams.

Kevin has served as Chairman of the Board at three companies, including Cybrexa. In addition to the successful launch of Cybrexa, Kevin has played a key role in building and successfully financially exiting two biotech companies.The first was CyVera, which was launched in 2003 and then sold to the gene sequencing market leader Illumina in 2005. The second was CyVek, which was launched in 2011 and then sold to Bio-Techne in 2016.Kevin has also spent the last 20 years as the Founder and CEO of CiDRA, a trusted process optimization company to many of the largest companies in the world. He received a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Before co-founding Cybrexa, Per was President & CEO of CyVek, where in just over four years he led the development, commercialization, and exit of a novel automated immunoassay system that was acquired by Bio-Techne. Prior to that, he was the President of inc.jet, Inc., a startup that led the introduction of thermal inkjet printing in the commercial printing space. Per has undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Business, and a Master’s Degree in Management from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Dr. Houston is President and Chief Executive Officer of Arvinas, Inc. Previously, he was the SVP of Specialty Discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). He spent more than 18 years at BMS in roles of increasing responsibility and had accountability for all Discovery Biology disease teams as well as various Discovery technology departments. He was also the site head of the BMS Connecticut facility. Dr. Houston was a member of the BMS R&D Executive Leadership team and chaired the Target Portfolio Committee which had governance oversight in the discovery space. With his teams and research colleagues, he progressed over 200 compounds into early development, several of which advanced into late stage clinical trials, and toward commercialization.  Dr. Houston has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Prior to joining Bristol-Myers Squibb, he worked at Glaxo Wellcome Research and Development in the UK, where he served as head of the Lead Discovery Unit.

Dr. Houston obtained his B.Sc degree in Medical Microbiology from Glasgow University and obtained his Ph.D. with Professor Brian Catley in Microbial Biochemistry from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He also completed his post-doctoral studies on an MRC grant with Professor Julia Douglas at Glasgow University.

Kevin is Co-founder of HighCape Partners and brings more than 25 years of experience as an executive in the life sciences industry. He most recently served as President of Shire Regenerative Medicine. Prior to joining Shire, Kevin was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced BioHealing from 2007 until its acquisition by Shire in 2011. Before that, he served as an Executive-in-Residence at Canaan Partners. Previously, he was Co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly held pharmacogenomics company, until its merger with Clinical Data, Inc. in 2005. He currently serves as a Board Member of Cheetah Medical, Inc. (Chairman), Histogenics Corp., Collagen Matrix, Inc., TELA Bio, Inc., and CURE, Connecticut’s bioscience cluster. Kevin received an MBA from Columbia University and his MS in Finance and BS in Business from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Mike Grillo is an attorney with venture capital, corporate finance and transactional experience. Mike has participated in building and the successful exit of multiple biotech and industrial technology companies.  In addition venture financing, Mike assists portfolio companies in Intellectual Property protection, technology management and licensing. He received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, a JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and served as an officer in the US Submarine Service.