Joseph Cooper, Director. Mr. Cooper has served as director of Quoin Inc. since May 2021. Mr. Cooper has served as director of Quoin Ltd. since October 28, 2021. Mr. Cooper brings more than 30 years of experience in operational, corporate development and general management roles within the pharmaceutical industry. He currently serves Chief of Strategy and Corporate Development for Resonea, Inc. Previously he has held a series of general management, operational and strategic roles within pharmaceutical companies including serving 15 years as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development with Medicis Pharmaceutical and previously with Schein Pharmaceuticals and GD Searle. He is a founding board member of First Place AZ, a nonprofit dedicated to developing new housing options for adults with autism and related disorders and has served as a past board member and chair of the Research and Medical Affairs Committee for the Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center. Mr. Cooper holds an MBA from the WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and a BA from Northeastern Illinois University. He serves on the board of Sonoran Biosciences, and has previously served on the board of Bioenvision and as a board observer for several specialty pharmaceutical companies.
James Culverwell, Director. Mr. Culverwell has served as director of Quoin Inc. since April 2021. Mr. Culverwell has served as director of Quoin Ltd. since October 28, 2021. Mr. Culverwell was for 25 years a leading healthcare investment analyst, formerly SVP and Global Coordinator Healthcare at Merrill Lynch. He is currently chairman of HOX Therapeutics, a company involved in prostate cancer research, and is a director of TC Biopharm, a NASDAQ listed company developing treatments for cancer based on gamma delta T-cells. He also serves on the board of directors of Safeguard Biosystems, a high throughput molecular diagnostics company. He has been a non-executive director in early stage life science companies, both private and public, including Innocoll, Atlantic Healthcare, ToHealth, Bioco, and Amryt Pharmaceuticals. He received an MSc with honors from the University of Aberdeen.
Dennis H. Langer, M.D., J.D., Director. Dr. Langer has served as director of Quoin Inc. since 2019. Dr. Langer has served as director of Quoin Ltd. since October 28, 2021 Dr. Langer is a Director of Myriad Genetics, Inc., and Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc., and several private health care companies. He has served as a Director of several public and private biotechnology, specialty pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies, including Sirna Therapeutics, Inc. (acquired by Merck & Co., Inc.), Ception Therapeutics, Inc. (acquired by Cephalon, Inc.), Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. (acquired by Shire plc), Pharmacopeia, Inc. (acquired by Ligand, Inc.), and Cytogen Corporation (acquired by EUSA Pharma, Inc.). He was a Managing Partner at Phoenix IP Ventures, LLC from 2005-2010. From 2004-2005, he was President, North America for Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Inc. Dr. Langer was with GlaxoSmithKline from 1994-2004, where he served as Senior Vice President, Project, Portfolio and Alliance Management, Senior Vice President, Product Development Strategy, and Senior Vice President, Healthcare Services R&D. He also served as President and CEO at Neose Technologies, Inc. from 1991-1994. Previously, Dr. Langer held R&D and marketing positions at Eli Lilly, Abbott, and Searle. During the past five years, Dr. Langer served as a Director of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Pernix Therapeutics, Inc., both public companies. Dr. Langer serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of Harvard Law School. He received an M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. in Biology from Columbia University.
Natalie Leong, Director. Ms. Leong has served as director of Quoin Inc. since April 2021. Ms. Leong has served as director of Quoin Ltd. since October 28, 2021. Ms. Leong has been Head of Finance and subsequently Head of Product for LoanStreet since October 2019. In this and other advisory roles for start-ups, Ms. Leong specializes in valuations, product development life cycles, financial operations and internal controls. Ms. Leong has worked with companies across Asia, Australia, Europe and the US in valuation and implementation of transactions through sale, IPO, float and raising capital from various sources. She has broad experience analyzing business plans, performing market analyses, preparing financial projections and developing valuation models to advise clients throughout the process of equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. From May 2016 to July 2019, Ms. Leong served as the lead for the Asset Liability Committee for the US at RBC Capital Markets, liaising with Heads of businesses, US CFO, US CRO, and US Treasurer and authoring the CFO’s presentation to the Board. In addition, she led FPA for fixed income and origination businesses. From October 2011 to May 2016, Ms. Leong worked as the VP of Capital Insights at National Australia Bank. During these years, Ms. Leong managed and presented at the Group Capital Committee (Group and Divisional CFOs, Treasurer, MD M&A, MD Credit. From February 2008 to October 2011, Ms. Leong specialized in internal controls across retail, corporate and wholesale banking at National Australia Bank. Ms. Leong earned her MBA at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She earned a B.Comm degree (Finance and Economics) and a B.A. degree (French and Literature) from the University of Melbourne in 2007.