Aurgalys

Philippe Berthon, PhD

Chief Executive Officer – Paris France
ph.berthon@aurgalys.com

Philippe Berthon is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Aurgalys, also board member of France Biotech & Essonne Economy Agency. Previously, Dr Berthon was Chief Executive Officer of Vaxon-Biotech (2004-2008), a company developing cancer immunotherapeutic products at late clinical development stages.  Philippe founded UroGene in 1998, was CEO then President & CSO. UroGene was dedicated to urological diseases including cancer and incontinence, raised a total of €25M venture capital money, and was traded off to Groupe Pierre Fabre early 2005. Prior to these appointments, Dr Berthon was co-founder and CEO of CeRePP at Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, from 1995-1999; senior post-doctoral fellow at the Cancer Research Unit, University of York, UK, for 3 years; and research fellow at Paris VI University for 5 years. Dr Berthon co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed international publications,  received his PhD in Reproduction Physiology at Paris VI University, and graduated from Challenge+ Business and Administration program, HEC School of Management, Jouy en Josas, France.

Manuel Vega, PhD

Aurgalys Partner - Paris France
m.vega@aurgalys.com

Dr Vega is partner of Aurgalys based at the Evry-Paris office. Manuel Vega joined Aurgalys in 2010 from L&M Crecer, a business & technology consulting firm between Argentina and France. Previously, Dr Vega was founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nautilus Biotech (US and France)  from 1999 to 2007, for which he closed €40M+ corporate deals and  raised  about  €30M€, mostly in private equity financing. For his previous appointments, Dr Vega was Director Development & Production at Genethon, France (1997-1999) , Managing Director of Microgen, Argentina (1993-1995), and from 1988 to 1993 held several senior academic positions in major institutes (INSERM, EMBO), in France and Germany . Dr Vega co-authored 25 peer-reviewed international publications, received his PhD in Biology at Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina.

Serge Goldner

Business Affiliate – Tel Aviv Israel
serge.goldner@gmail.com
Serge Godner is an Healthcare/Financial senior advisor for several companies and consultancy groups and he is CFO at Immune Pharmaceuticals
(www.immunepharmaceuticals.com ). In 2006 he founded the Life Sciences corporate finance arm of the Cukierman’s group. He brings 12 years of
financial, business development and 3 ventures management experience in the services. Serge served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a Company Commander of the artillery unit and was instructor in the Commander course. Serge Goldner holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Miguel Esquivel

Director, Business Development
m.esquivel@aurgalys.com

Miguel Esquivel is Aurgalys Director, Business Development. Mr Esquivel brings 10 years of sales and marketing experience in various industries, including finance and real estate. He also managed subsidiaries of UK-based companies in the data base market. Mr Esquivel owns a Master in Strategy and International Trade from Evry University, France.