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Mentors

Roger Anderson, PhD.

Biotech Consultant

Bud Bishop, PhD.

President, Pasadena BioCollaborative Incubator and SoCalBio Board Member

PETER BLAISDELL PHD.

Member Scientific Advisory Board, Immunotherapy Company

Chris Bostick

Vice President, OCV

Calvin Chen

CEO, CrossLinkBio; Investment Committee, Cove Fund

George Colindres

Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP, Los Angeles

Steven Corr

Partner, Jones Day

Paul A. DeRidder, MD, MBA

Co-Founder, Cold Genesys, Inc.

William Dolphin, PhD

Investor & Serial Entrepreneur

Lara Dueppen

Partner, Perkins Coie LLP

Steve Goldman

President & CEO, Geshtalti; Member, Keiretsu Forum; and SoCalBio Board Member

Zafiris Gourgouliatos, PhD

President, Leilux, Inc.

Earle Hager

Managing Partner, The Neutrino Donut, LLC

Winn Hong

Sr. Director, Engineering and Business Development, AMI – USC

David Hood

President & CEO, DH3 & Associates

Wendie Johnston, PhD

Exe. Director, LA/Orange County Biotech Center

Jerry Joseph

Verity Associates

Jerry Knotts

President, Central Coast Venture Forum

Richard Koffler

Founder, Greenwings Biomedical

Mohammad Kondri, MPH, MBA

Trade Commissioner, Life Sciences & Medtech, Consulate General of Canada

Gary Lazar, MD

President & CEO, Soundstim Therapeutics, Inc.

Hal Lieberman

Sr. Associate, Exceleration Management

Thomas Lobl, PhD

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, AMI-USC

Jörg Lorscheider

Director of Sales & Marketing, Omnica Corporation

Zohar Loshitzer,

Principal, OCV; Board of Directors, OSSIO, Ltd

Dwain Morris-Irvin, PHD, MPH

President, Innovest Global Inc, IVST, Biotech Division

Steve Maylish

CEO, Fusion Biotech

Charles McWilliams

Sr. VP, VWR

Mordechai Nosrati, MD

USC Keck School of Medicine

Alex Rabiee

Vice President of Business Development, Provention Bio

Michael Reilly

VP of Business Development, Integrity Bio Inc., and SoCalBio Board Member

David Rubenson

Director, Nobadslides.com

Shiva Sharareh

Director R&D and Commercialization OC HBA Chapter Vice President

Mark A Siegfried

Director, CBIZ & Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.

Stephen Williams, PhD,

Partner, Catalyst Advisors, LP

Michael Wise

Partner, Perkins Coie, and Secretary of the SoCalBio Board of Directors

Mark Wittman

Consultants-Clinical Affairs, Beyond Lucid Technologies

Alvin Viray

Associate Director, UCI Applied Innovation

Greg Zikos

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, AMI-USC

Parisa Khosropour

Healthcare, Medical Device and Diagnostics Advisor