An Innovative Funding
Model for Biotech Companies
Presenter:
Joe Payne is the president and chief operating officer at Scorpius BioManufacturing. He has over two decades of biopharma industry experience, including both biopharmaceutical companies and CDMOs as well as companies Teva Pharmaceuticals (manager, operations & risk assessment), Alcami Corporation (VP, quality & regulatory), and Tergus Pharma (VP, quality & compliance).
Joe joined Scorpius in 2023 as VP of quality and regulatory affairs. He has participated in over 40 regulatory inspections and has extensive knowledge of global regulatory agency requirements. He has a broad range of experience in drug development, operational execution, and executive management in addition to QC and compliance.
In his role as president and COO, he oversees quality, manufacturing, process sciences, and commercial operations.
Joe earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.
Jeff Wolf is founder and CEO of Scorpius. He also founded Seed-One Ventures, a firm focused on the systematic formation and management of new biomedical companies founded on breakthrough ideas and technology.
Throughout his career, Jeff has specialized in building new life-science companies from the ground up and plays an active role in supporting the growth of his companies. His start-ups include Avigen (co-founder and director), a NASDAQ-listed gene therapy company; TyRx Pharma (co-founder and chairman), which was focused on the development of novel biocompatible polymers and acquired by Medtronic; and EluSys Therapeutics (co-founder and founding CEO), a biodefense company focused on the development of Anthim® antibody therapeutic, an approved medical countermeasure to mitigate the effect of anthrax exposure after a natural incident or intentional attack.
Jeff Wolf received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago where he graduated with honors in economics, his master's degree from Stanford Business School, and his doctoral degree from New York University School of Law.
