HONORED GUESTS

Complete Guest Directory

Every leader who has joined Lori Ellis on Open Door Salon. Each name links to a full profile.

• Ali Pashazadeh — Founder & CEO, Treehill Partners | Healthcare Investor, Surgeon & Former Banker
• Andy Holt — CCO, Viralgen | AAV Gene-Therapy Manufacturing
• Anna Titkova — Clinical Research Site Network Leader, Pratia | MD, PhD, MBA
• Anne Herold Li — Shareholder & NY Managing Partner, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck | Co-Chair, Life Sciences Practice
• Bambi Grilley — President-Elect, ISCT
• Christian Espinosa — Founder & CEO, Blue Goat Cyber
• Clinton West — President, Supply Chain Security, Aardwolf Global Solutions | Former CIA Supply-Chain Risk Leader
• Colin Zick — Partner, Foley Hoag | Co-Chair, Health Care + Privacy & Data Security Practices
• Craig Lipset — Founder, Clinical Innovation Partners | Co-Founder & Co-Chair, Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance
• Daphne Karydas — President & CFO, Flare Therapeutics | 20+ Years in Biopharma Finance & Dealmaking
• Dr. Christiana (Chris) Bardon — Co-Managing Partner, MPM BioImpact | Physician-Investor in Oncology & Biotech
• Edwin Lindsay — Principal Consultant & Managing Director, CS Lifesciences
• Edwin Stone — CEO, Cellular Origins | Automated Cell-Therapy Manufacturing
• Elaine Hamm — President & CEO, Ascend BioVentures | Executive-in-Residence, Tulane School of Medicine
• Elisa Cascade — CGO, TrialScreen | AI & Patient Access in Clinical Research
• Erik Digman Wiklund — CEO, Circio Holding | Circular-RNA Platform & Biotech Finance
• Frank Watanabe — President & CEO, Arcutis Biotherapeutics | Vice Chair, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
• Jaap Jan Boelens — Chief Medical Officer, ISCT
• Jeff Fischer — President & Co-Founder, Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics | Chronic Inflammation & Longevity
• Jeff Holder — Managing Director & Partner, L.E.K. Consulting | Cell & Gene Therapy Strategy & Life-Sciences Enablers
• Jesús Zurdo — Biopharmaceutical Scientist & Innovation Leader | Leukemia Survivor & Patient Advocate
• Jim Kremidas — Executive Director, Association of Multisite Research Corporations (AMRC) | Patient-Recruitment Pioneer & Clinical-Trial Patient
• Joanna Sickler — VP, Health Policy & External Affairs, Roche Diagnostics | Women's Health & Diagnostics Policy
• Jon Rees — CEO & Co-Founder, MitoRx Therapeutics | Next-Generation Obesity & Metabolic Health
• Josh Fessel — Former CMO & Director, Office of Translational Medicine, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH | Regulatory & Science
• Karla Loken — Founder, Loken & Associates | OB-GYN & Women's Health Medical-Affairs Leader
• Katie Schubert — President & CEO, Society for Women's Health Research | Women's Health Policy & Advocacy
• Konstantina Katcheves — SVP & Chief Business and Strategy Officer, Acadia Pharmaceuticals | 20+ Years in Biopharma M&A & Strategy
• Matthew Hewitt — VP & CTO, Manufacturing Business Division, Charles River Laboratories | Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing
• Mike Goguen — Founder & Managing Partner, Two Bear Capital
• Mike Walker — Health & Life Sciences Digital-Strategy Leader | Former Microsoft Executive Director & Gartner Analyst
• Phil Vanek — Chief Commercialization Officer, International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT) | Cell & Gene Therapy Strategist
• Prashant Yadav — Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations | Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Expert
• Richard Hicks — President & CEO, Inspiredu | Closing the Digital Divide
• Rob Williamson — Founder & CEO, Traverse Therapeutics | AI-Driven Blood-Brain Barrier Drug Delivery (Stealth)
• Robert Califf — Two-Time FDA Commissioner | Professor, Duke University School of Medicine
• Steve Butts — CEO, Arrivo BioVentures | Sex-Based Medicine & CNS Drug Development
• Steven McWilliams — VP & CIO, Georgia Hospital Association | Healthcare IT, Cybersecurity & Patient Access
• Sunitha Malepati — Founder, The Buffalo Initiative | Fellow, Renaissance Philanthropy
• Theresa Campobasso — Senior Vice President, Aardwolf Global Solutions | Former U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Officer
• Tina Valbh — Managing Partner, Pharma Connect | Founder, Tina's Warriors | Patient Advocate
• Tom Whitehead — Co-Founder, Emily Whitehead Foundation | Father of Emily Whitehead, First Pediatric CAR-T Cell Therapy Patient
• Tori Lee — Pediatric CAR-T Survivor & Patient Advocate | Health-Policy Student
• Vid Desai — First FDA Chief Information Officer