Henry Ji
Chairman, President and CEO
- 25+ years of experience in the biotechnology and life sciences industry
- Dr. Ji co-founded Sorrento and has served as a director since 2006, CEO and President since 2012, and Chairman since 2017
- During his tenure at Sorrento, he has engineered and led a phenomenal growth of Sorrento through acquisition and merger including Bioserv, Scilex Pharmaceuticals, Concortis Biotherapeutics, Levena Biopharma, LACEL, TNK Therapeutics, Virttu Biologics, Ark Animal Health, and Sofusa Lymphatic Delivery Systems
- Served as Sorrento’s Chief Scientific Officer from 2008 to 2012 and as its Interim CEO from 2011 to 2012
- Prior to Sorrento, he held senior executive positions at CombiMatrix, Stratagene and also co-founded Stratagene Genomics, a subsidiary of Stratagene, and served as its President & CEO and Director of the Board
- B.S. and Ph.D.
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Mark R. Brunswick
Senior Vice President Regulatory Affairs
- Dr. Brunswick has over 35 years of senior positions in Regulated Industry including over 9 years in the US FDA, Center for Biologics, Division of Monoclonal Antibodies
- Prior to joining Sorrento, Dr. Brunswick was Head of Regulatory Affairs and Quality at Sophiris Bio, a company developing a drug for benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer. Prior to that he was the head of Regulatory Affairs at Arena Pharmaceuticals specializing in therapies directed at G Protein receptors
- Dr. Brunswick led the regulatory group at Elan Pharmaceuticals concentrating on Alzheimer Disease and the pain compound, ziconotide
- B.S. and Ph.D.
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Xiao Xu
President ACEA
- Dr. Xu has more than 20 years experience as an executive in biotech industries. Dr. Xu was a cofounder, president and CEO of ACEA Biosciences (acquired by Agilent in 2018) and ACEA Therapeutics (acquired by Sorrento Therapeutics in 2021). He joins Sorrento Therapeutics after the acquisition, and continues functioning as President of ACEA, a subsidiary of Sorrento Therapeutics.
- He has been managing and responsible for ACEA innovative drug pipeline development, clinical studies, and cGMP manufacture facility.
- He was the co-inventor of innovative label free cell-based assay technology and responsible for technology/product development and business partnership with Roche Diagnosis, global commercialization of ACEA’s proprietary technology and products, and $250 million Agilent acquisition of ACEA Biosciences.
- He has been staff investigator and research scientist at Gladstone Institutes, The Scripps Research Institute and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He owns over 50 US patents and patent applications and has published over 60 research articles in international journals, including Science, PNAS, Nature Biotechnology, and Chemistry and Biology.
- B.S., M.S., and M.D.
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Shawn Sahebi
Senior Vice President Commercial Operations
- Dr. Sahebi leads Sorrento’s commercial operations functions
- Brings more than 30 years of pharmaceutical experience including marketing science and commercial strategy to Sorrento
- Prior to joining Sorrento, he held senior management positions with Novartis, Pfizer, and Lilly developing commercial analytics and data driven marketing strategies responsible for significant sales growth of over 20 products reaching blockbuster status in areas of Cardiovascular, Arthritis, Neuroscience, Diabetes, and Oncology
- A firm believer that collaborative cultures create winning teams
- Past President, Pharmaceutical Management Science Association of America
- B.A., M.B.A. and Ph.D.
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Alexis Nahama
Senior Vice President Neurotherapeutics BU
- Dr. Nahama leads RTX human and animal health drug development programs
- As a member leadership team, Dr. Nahama supports strategy development, oversees high value projects, facilitates go to market preparation, and nurtures external alliance efforts
- Passionately drives the translational opportunities to accelerate human development programs while bringing technologies that otherwise would not be available to pets
- Prior to joining Sorrento, he spent over 25 years holding global executive roles working in Life Sciences and Biotechnology for Sanofi, Colgate, Novartis, Merck, VCA Antech and VetStem Biopharma
- D.V.M. with early career focused on R&D in the pain area (clinical trials for pets)
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