Board of Directors

Peter Jensen, BSc, LLB – Director and Chairman

Mr. Jensen holds a Bachelor of Science and two law degrees from McGill University. Prior to obtaining his law degrees, he conducted diabetes research and was involved in medical clinic management. Mr. Jensen began his law practice in 1981, focusing on the corporate and securities sectors in British Columbia. He has gained a wide range of international legal counseling experience, with special expertise in trans-border transactions for companies operating in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. Mr. Jensen is a former and current director of a number of private and publicly traded companies and has assisted with financing in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia.

David Hall – CEO, President and Director

For more than a decade, Mr. Hall held executive management roles at Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Inc. including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Vice President of Government & Community Relations. He also served as the company’s Corporate Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. Hall is highly committed to governmental policy issues related to the biotech industry. He is the past Chairman and current board member of Life Sciences BC and currently serves as a director of Advantage BC. He has served as the Chairman of the Biotech Industry Advisory Committee to the BC Competition Council and as a member of the BC Task Force on PharmaCare. Mr. Hall is also member of the University of British Columbia’s Tech Equity Investment Committee and is a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of GLG Lifetech Corporation.

Dr. Rolf Hoffmann, MD – Chief Medical Officer & Director

Dr. Hoffmann has been working for the past 18 years in the fields of alopecia, endocrinology of the hair follicle and hair follicle morphogenesis. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed medical and scientific journal articles, and has contributed to numerous dermatology textbooks. Dr. Hoffmann received his education in biochemistry and pathology at the University of Freiburg, Germany, one of Europe’s top centers for biology research. He is a board certified dermatologist and a Professor in the Department of Dermatology at Phillips University in Marburg, Germany. Dr. Hoffmann is the inventor of TrichoScan, the first GCP-approved, software-based, automatic technique to measure hair growth. He is a member of many scientific societies and worked several years as the secretary and president of the European Hair Research Society.

Dr. John Challis, PhD – Director

Dr. Challis is an internationally-recognized researcher in the fields of physiology, obstetrics and gynaecology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and articles, trained more than 70 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and has served as President of several professional associations in his field of research.

In 2007, Dr. Challis was awarded The McLaughlin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for important research of sustained excellence in medical science. In 2009, Dr. Challis received the President’s Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI). Currently, he holds the rank of University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Departments of Physiology, Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He is also the past-President and CEO of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, British Columbia’s health research funding organization.

Peter Lewis, CA – Director

Mr. Lewis is a chartered accountant and partner with Lewis and Company, a firm specializing in taxation law since 1993. His areas of expertise include tax planning, acquisitions and divestitures, reorganizations and estate planning. Mr. Lewis is a sought after educator, having taught and presented taxation courses at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia and the Canadian Tax Foundation. He served on the Taxation Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for three years and as President and Secretary-Treasurer at the Jericho Tennis Club for a combined ten years. Mr. Lewis is currently a member of the University Endowment Lands Community Advisory Committee.