Meet our Leadership

Carol Malysz, Executive Director, leads the RI Bio community and Board of Directors in developing strong collaborations among life sciences companies, entrepreneurs, sources of capital, academic and medical centers, hospitals and government organizations to ensure a high-value life sciences community. Through education and advocacy, she supports innovators, students, clinicians, academics and businesses in their efforts to advance science.
Jay Round, RI Bio’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) provides free consulting and advisory services to help life sciences entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses. The EIR helps Rhode Island start-ups leverage a plethora of resources at the academic and state level, and helps them better understand regulatory issues, technology transfer, funding streams and how to connect and collaborate with academic partners.
“The R.I. innovation community is expected to bring 1000-plus jobs and an additional $100 million in revenue to the state over the next 20 years.”
2022 Annual Meeting
In case you missed it, download a copy of the Annual Meeting presentation held on January 19, 2022.

Board of Directors

Guy Asadorian
Senior Vice President and Private Client Advisor, Bank of America

Michael Elliott
Physician-Scientist, Drug Developer, Early-Stage Life Science Investor

Margaret Farrell
Partner, Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

Michael Katz
Associate Vice President for Intellectual Property and Economic Development, URI

Jaimy Mauricio
Senior Director of Finance & Operations Controller, Rubius Therapeutics Inc.

Dom Messerli
President and CEO, Lenoss Medical, LLC

Patrice Milos
RI Bio Board Chair, Vice President, Scientific Operations, Proof Diagnostics

Neil Sarkar
President & CEO, Rhode Island Quality Institute

Jeff Vallerga
Executive Director, Strategic Alliances - VWR, Part of Avantor

Michelle Wu
Medical Device Leader, Management Consultant, Wu Consulting
Board of Directors Emeriti

David Goldsmith
Board of Directors, Chair Emeritus, Founder and CEO, youB, Inc.

Aidan Petrie
Managing Partner, NEMIC
Life Science Advisors

Ed Bozzi, PhD
Professor, Biotechnology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Robert Bouthillier
CEO & Co-Founder, PrO2

Leonard Buckbinder, PhD
VP Biology, Scorpion Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

Chesley M. Chen, MS, MBA
Principal, Life Sciences, CLA, CliftonLarsonAllen; Adjunct Professor, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver

Moses Goddard
Life Sciences Entrepreneur

Geraldine Harriman, PhD
Co-Founder/CSO, Hot Spot Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

Scott Keeley
Patent Agent, Keeley DeAngelo LLP, Charlestown, RI

James Pierce
Executive Director, Process Development, Amgen

John Thompson, PhD
VP Genomics and Computational Biology, Homology Medicines, Bedford, MA

Brian Morley
Founder, Emerge Health RI, Providence, RI

Eric Muller
Medical Device/Healthcare Entrepreneur

Michelle Wu
Medical Device Leader, Management Consultant, Wu Consulting