Officers

Dr. Merzouki was appointed as a director and our chief operating officer in February 2016. In addition to his positions with our Company since January 2016 he has been self-employed as a consultant in the fields of biotechnology and pharmacology. From July 2007 through December 2016, Dr. Merzouki worked at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, where he taught and acted as a senior scientist involved in the research and development of plasmid and siRNA-based therapies. Dr. Merzouki is a molecular biologist and an immunologist with extensive experience in the area of gene therapy where he performed several preclinical studies for pharmaceutical companies involving the use of adenoviral vectors for cancer therapy and plasmid vectors for the treatment of peripheral arterial occlusions. Dr. Merzouki also has extensive expertise in the design of expression vectors, and production and purification of recombinant proteins. He developed technologies for production of biogeneric therapeutic proteins for the treatment of various diseases including cancer, diabetes, hepatitis and multiple sclerosis. Dr. Merzouki obtained his Ph.D. in Virology and Immunology from Institut Armand-Frappier in Quebec and received his post-doctoral training at the University of British Columbia and the BC Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS research. Dr. Merzouki has over 30 publications and 70 communications in various, highly respected scientific journals in the field of cellular and molecular biology.

Mr. Camille Sebaaly was appointed as our chief financial officer, secretary and a director of our Company on October 15, 2009. He resigned as a director of the Company in October 2021. Since 2001, Mr. Sebaaly has been self-employed as a business consultant, primarily in the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical sectors. He held a number of senior executive positions in various areas including financial management, business development, project management and finance. As an executive and an entrepreneur, he combines expertise in strategic planning and finance with strong skills in business development and deal structure and negotiations. In addition, Mr. Sebaaly worked in operations, general management, investor relations, marketing and business development with emphasis on international business and marketing of advanced technologies including hydrogen generation and energy saving. In the area of marketing, Mr. Sebaaly has evaluated market demands and opportunities, created strategic marketing and business development plans, designed marketing communications and launched market penetration programs. Mr. Sebaaly graduated from State University of New York at Buffalo with an Electrical and Computer Engineering Degree in 1987.

Mr. Marc Beaudoin was appointed as our Chief Operating Officer in January 2024. Mr. Beaudoin was the sole owner of M.A. Beaudoin Consulting Group Inc., a privately held business strategy consulting company in the Canadian pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical sectors since 2016. From January 2018 through February 2019, he was employed by the KDA Group, Inc., a publicly held Canadian healthcare company, as the COO of KDA Group and CEO of its Canadian generic pharmaceutical division, Pharmapar. From 2006 to 2016, he held several executive positions at Sandoz Canada in various areas including Marketing and Communications, Strategic Planning, Business Development & Portfolio Management. As an executive and an entrepreneur, he combines expertise in strategic planning with operational and commercial execution. Mr. Beaudoin obtained his MBA from Sherbrooke University in 2018. He also holds multiple certifications (including a fellowship) from the Association for Supply Chain Management.

Mr. Malek Chamoun was appointed as our Chief Development Officer in January 2024. In addition, he is President of Nora Pharma Inc., our wholly owned subsidiary that we acquired in October 2022. In 2017 he founded Nora Pharma, where he has been the President since inception. Mr. Chamoun received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Hautes Études Commerciales, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 2008 and became a licensed CPA in Canada in 2012. He devotes all of his business time to Nora Pharma’s affairs.