Leadership

Ms. Powell joined Tavanta Therapeutics in September 2019 and has 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical/ biotechnology industry. Prior to Tavanta she served as Chief Commercial Office at BioCryst, an emerging biotechnology company focused on commercializing innovative small molecules for rare diseases. Before this, she was Senior Vice President, North America, at CSL Behring. Throughout her 17-year career at CSL Behring, she assumed increasing responsibilities within the R&D, Business Development and Commercial functions of the organization. Ms. Powell has significant global experience serving as Vice President, Global Commercial Development and Head of Business Development & European Marketing, Head of Project and Portfolio Management and Head of Clinical Research. Ms. Powell also held positions within Glaxo Wellcome’s UK based commercial strategy and clinical research organizations. Ms. Powell serves on the Board of Directors for Progenity.

Ms. Ferenczi has been with Tavanta Therapeutics since 2010. She began with Tavanta (then NanGenex) by leading the business development operations and was later promoted to Managing Director. Ms. Ferenczi now serves as General Manager, Europe. Prior to Tavanta, she worked at Genpact, a formerly GE owned company, that had established itself as one of Europe’s business services and technology solutions providers. Ms. Ferenczi has also served in a senior business development position at SOLVO Biotechnology and was responsible for the European sales operations of the company. Ms. Ferenczi graduated as a biomedical engineer from the University of Miami.

Ms. Whitfield brings over 25 years’ experience in the drug development arena to Tavanta Therapeutics with a track record of delivering programs from pre-clinical to late stage intended for large patient populations as well as for orphan/rare indications across a broad range of drug product formats intended for oral, inhaled, topical and parenteral administration routes. Most recently she held the position of Vice President, CDMO Services for Quotient Sciences working across the global sites supporting the integrated CMC and clinical platform. Ms. Whitfield has previously held leadership positions within Vectura, Elan, Quadrant Healthcare and Andaris, overseeing CMC activities which alongside formulation and analytical development included regulatory filings across the development phases.

Dr. Maetzel’s career spans more than two decades of experience with biotechnology products and rare disease interventions across all stages of development and commercialization. He joins Tavanta as CMO from KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where he served as senior vice president, medical and contributed to the successful transition of KalVista’s lead asset into late-stage clinical development. Prior, Dr. Maetzel held senior global medical affairs positions with BioCryst Pharmaceuticals and Cornerstone Biopharma, overseeing manufacturing, regulatory, drug safety, clinical development, and pricing and market access. In 2009, he co-founded Stratas Partners, a strategic market-access consultancy that was later sold to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dr. Maetzel currently holds an academic appointment as adjunct professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto where he earned his PhD and MSc after completing his medical training in Paris, France.

Dr. Duus brings 15 years of clinical research experience in the biopharmaceutical industry to Tavanta Therapeutics, spanning early and late development across multiple therapeutic areas. Most recently, she served as Senior Director, Clinical Research & Strategy at Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. Over the 8 years at Helsinn, Dr. Duus led the clinical strategy for oncology-related compounds in development, contributed to global regulatory engagements, supported clinical operations and biostatistics, managed medical writing activities, and oversaw investigator-initiated and collaborative studies in the US. She also held positions of increasing responsibility at Akros Pharma Inc and Avantix Laboratories. After receiving an undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Delaware, Dr. Duus earned her PhD in pharmacology and molecular sciences from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.