Directors & Officers

Home
William Coley
Historical Results
MBVax Results
Clinical Trials
Directors & Officers
Scientific Advisory
Clinical Advisory
Resources
Contact

 

Don MacAdam, Chief Executive Officer of the company, is a scientist and technology executive. He is the former president of CRS Robotics Corporation, a manufacturer of laboratory robotic systems, and former president and chief executive officer of Tm Bioscience Corporation, a manufacturer of biochips and developer of DNA technologies. Mr. MacAdam is the author of Spontaneous Regression: Cancer and the Immune System.

J.F. (Rick) Durst is a graduate of the Ivey School of Business retiring at the age of forty-two after a career in investment banking.  Prior to this work, Rick spent three years assisting locally owned businesses in an underdeveloped country.  Rick has sat on the Boards of two TSX listed companies and has served on many committees with numerous charities.  This includes representing patients on an accreditation committee of a major Toronto Hospital.  Rick is a cancer survivor, being one of the earliest recipients of stem cell transplant therapy.

Jan-Paul Waldin, a lawyer, is a graduate of Osgoode Hall  Law School and holds an B.A. (Hons) in Economics from the University of Toronto. Mr. Waldin acts as counsel providing legal and strategic advice for both publicly traded and closely held corporations in Canada and abroad.  He has served on the boards of Canadian and multi-national corporations and has been Vice President and General Counsel of biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.

Ted Mayers was the Chief Financial Officer of LionOre Mining International Ltd. from 1997 until 2007, when it was sold to MMC Norilsk Nickel.  Subsequent to that, Mr. Mayers served as Chief Financial Officer of Lundin Mining Corporation.  Mr. Mayers has extensive experience in accounting, finance, and corporate governance.  He is a Chartered Accountant, and has a BSc in biochemistry from McGill University and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

John Unsworth is president of Vasotech Corp, a medical devices company. A biotechnology and medical device inventor and entrepreneur, Mr. Unsworth was formerly president of BioFrost Inc. and Hypercube Inc., and was a founder and director of GlycoDesign Inc.

Stephen A. Hoption Cann, Ph.D, Chief Scientific Officer, is a clinical assistant professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include the epidemiology of cancer, the phenomenon of spontaneous regression of cancer and other diseases, fever therapy and the work of Dr. William Coley.

David Wales, B. Comm., CMA, Chief Financial Officer, has held a number of high-level positions in finance including the senior roles at two publicly traded companies: Tm Bioscience Corporation and CRS Robotics Corporation. In addition to extensive financial experience, Mr. Wales is highly proficient in corporate infrastructure development and business system implementation.