Management

Aram Mangasarian, PhD

CEO

Aram Mangasarian was appointed CEO of TME Pharma (then NOXXON Pharma) in July 2015. He has transformed the company into a lean, publicly quoted company focused on targeting the tumor microenvironment to improve the treatment of solid tumors. Aram brings over twenty years experience in the biotechnology industry to TME Pharma.

Prior to joining TME Pharma in May 2010 as Chief Business Officer, Aram served as Vice-President Business Development for Novexel where he concluded a €150 million licensing agreement including a €75 million upfront payment with Forest Laboratories (NYSE:FRX) for North American rights to a beta-lactamase inhibitor now known as avibactam. Aram was a member of the management team that negotiated the subsequent acquisition of Novexel by AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN) for up to $505 million.

Aram began his career at ExonHit Therapeutics (now Eurobio Scientific, Euronext:ALERS), where he served in a variety of roles eventually heading the business development function as Vice-President. He concluded a number of important agreements for ExonHit, in particular the $30 million strategic alliance with Allergan.

Aram is a non-executive member of the board of directors of Isofol Medical AB, based in Gothenburg, Sweden, since June 2020.

Aram received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in biochemistry, molecular biology and English literature, a PhD in Biology from the University of California-San Diego for research carried out at the Salk Institute and an MBA from INSEAD.

Bryan Jennings

CFO

Bryan Jennings is a seasoned biotech executive with more than 30 years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, business development, accounting and investor relations.

Prior to joining TME Pharma, Bryan served as Chief Financial Officer of Peptilogics, Inc. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer for several private biotech firms including ChemomAb, Beren Therapeutics, Rational Vaccines, and KAHR Medical.

Prior to his CFO roles in biotech, Bryan was a senior member of the management team and a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. In addition to running the firm's capital markets team in the Americas, he also spent significant time in the firm's mergers and acquisitions practice and worked for several years in London covering technology and healthcare companies as well. Earlier, Bryan began his Wall Street career and spent several years at Goldman Sachs.

Bryan received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Williams College and his Masters in Business, with majors in Finance and Accounting, from The J.L. Kellogg School at Northwestern University.

Jarl Ulf Jungnelius, MD, PhD

Senior Medical Advisor

Jarl Ulf Jungnelius, MD, PhD joined the company as Chief Medical Officer in February 2017 and remains a fundamental part of TME Pharma’s top management as Senior Medical Advisor from May 2020. He is an oncologist with more than 25 years of clinical and research experience at both large pharmaceutical companies and academic organizations.

Jarl Ulf is CEO of Isofol Medical AB. He also serves on boards of Biovica International, CarpoNovum, Oncopeptides and Ryvu Therapeutics. Jarl Ulf held important responsibilities in the clinical development of several successful oncology drugs, including Abraxane^®, Gemzar^®, Alimta^® and Revlimid^®. He worked at Celgene from 2007 to 2014 where he served as Vice President of Clinical Research and Development, Solid Tumors. Prior to that post Jarl Ulf held leadership positions at Takeda, Pfizer, Eli Lilly & Company and VAXIMM, where he was responsible for clinical development of oncology programs as well as being involved in business development.

He received both a Bachelor of Science degree and his MD from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden.