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    Bernard Berk

    Chairman
    CEO
    President

 

 

Bernard Berk was appointed the Chief  Executive  Officer of the Company in June 2003,  a Director in February  2004 and Chairman of the Board on May 12, 2004.  Mr. Berk has been the  President and Chief  Executive  Officer of Michael Andrews Corporation,  a pharmaceutical  management  consultant firm, since 1996.  From 1994 until  1996,  Mr.  Berk was President and Chief Executive Officer of Nale Pharmaceutical  Corporation.  From 1989 until 1994, he was Senior Vice  President of Sales,  Marketing and Business Development  of Par  Pharmaceuticals,  Inc. Mr. Berk holds a B.S. from New York University.

 

     Veerappan Subramanian, Ph.D.

     Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Veerappan Subramanian has served as Elite's Chief Scientific Officer since February 2007 and Director since December 2006. Since December 2006, Dr. Subramanian serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Novel Laboratories, Inc.  Dr. Subramanian has been a pharmaceutical executive since 1981 and a pharmaceutical entrepreneur since 1997, when he formed Kali Laboratories, Inc. ("KALI LABS"). Kali Labs was acquired by Par Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 2004 and Dr. Subramanian continued to work as an executive vice president at Par Pharmaceuticals after the acquisition. Dr. Subramanian ended his relationship
with Par Pharmaceuticals in January 2006. Prior to organizing Kali Labs, Dr. Subramanian served for 6 years as vice president of scientific affairs for Zenith Laboratories, Inc. Prior to working with Zenith Laboratories, he was (i) the Director of New Product Development and Technical Services for Kali Pharma, Inc., (ii) a Senior Scientist, Commercial Products with Vicks Research Center, (iii) a Research Pharmacist, Dermatological with Johnson & Johnson and (iv) a Research Pharmacist in Product Development with E.R. Squibb & Sons. Between 2001 and 2005, Dr. Subramanian served on the board of Generic Pharmaceutical Industry
Association. Dr. Subramanian has a Ph.D. in Pharmacy (1981) from Rutgers University, a M.S. in Phamaceutics (1973) from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, and a B.S. in Pharmacy (1971) from Madurai Medical College.

 

     Stuart Apfel, M.D.

     Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Stuart Apfel has served as Elite's Chief Medical Officer since January, 2008.  Dr. Apfel is founder and president of Parallax Clinical Research, a consulting firm established in 2006, that assists biotechnology and small pharmaceutical companies with making the transition from the bench to a clinical development program.  In this capacity he has served as a consultant to Elite Pharmaceuticals over the past year.  From 2003 to 2006, Dr. Apfel was a senior director of clinical research at DOV Pharmaceuticals, Inc..  From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Apfel was a director of clinical research at Purdue Pharma L.P. Dr. Apfel is a board certified neurologist, and is currently on faculty as Associate Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at Downstate Medical School, where he continues to teach. Previously he was a full time faculty member in the departments of Neurology and Neuroscience at Albert Einstein from 1990 to 2000, where his research focused on the application of neurotrophic factors to neurologic disease.

 

      Chris Dick

      Executive Vice President
      Corporate Development

 

 

Chris Dick joined Elite in November of 2002 as Vice President of Corporate Development. He directs licensing and business development activities for Elite. He joined Elite from Elan Drug Delivery, Inc. where he served as Director of Business Development. While in this position he was responsible for licensing and business development of Elan’s portfolio of drug delivery technologies. Prior to Elan, Mr. Dick was Manager of Business Development and Marketing for EnTec, a drug delivery business unit within FMC Corporation’s Pharmaceutical Division. Mr. Dick held various other business and technical positions at FMC including Manager of Marketing for the FMC’s pharmaceutical functional coatings product line. Mr. Dick received an M.B.A. from Stern School of Business, New York University and a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

 

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