
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.