Senior Management
Donald J. McCaffrey
President and CEO, Co-Founder
Don is Resverlogix’s strategic leader, founder, mentor and the overall ‘heart’ of the company.
Donald McCaffrey is Co-Founder, President, & CEO of Resverlogix Corp. He has almost 30 years experience in drug discovery & development, and international conference and tradeshow management across multiple industries, including biotechnology. Don has led Resverlogix through significant change and achievement from its initial days as a private company to becoming a TSX listed company, including raising over CAD $140 million. In addition to garnering appropriate financing for Resverlogix’s aggressive development plan, Don has strategically directed the Company in its discussions with top global pharmaceutical companies, while creating new therapeutic markets for its key technology platforms. Don’s expertise in corporate operations has attracted an international team of R&D experts to Resverlogix. This scientific and operational expertise has pioneered RVX-208, a drug which has the potential to be first in a new class of drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Under his guidance Resverlogix has won multiple awards including the 2008 WEF Technology Pioneer award.
Don’s career accomplishments have been recognized by the business community and peers, as he was nominated for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year twice. He is a contributor to community non-profit organizations including the United Way, Alberta Children's Hospital, Education Matters, and Calgary Urban Project Society Literacy Program.
Norman C.W. Wong, M.D., FRCP
Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder
Norman is the visionary for the scientific development of Resverlogix’s therapeutic platforms.
A. Brad Cann, CA
Chief Financial Officer
Brad is responsible for accounting, taxation, finance, treasury, corporate governance and risk management.
Brad has more than 14 years of financial and business experience. Prior to joining Resverlogix, Brad was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Royal Host Real Estate Investment Trust, a diversified hospitality trust engaged in hotel ownership, investment, management and franchising, and
Prior to joining Royal Host, Brad was a business consultant and held senior management positions with several companies including Chief Financial Officer of a sulphur export development company and Chief Financial Officer of an oilfield waste water treatment company. Prior thereto, Brad held various positions with a chartered accounting firm.
Brad is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Business Valuator, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the
Jan O. Johansson, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President Medical Affairs
Jan oversees the clinical and regulatory development, and provides scientific guidance to the corporation.
Jan has had a distinguished 30 year career of which the past 15 years have been in small biotechnology and large pharmaceutical companies with expertise in the cardiovascular disease therapeutic area. He has served as Chief Medical Officer at Nuvelo, Inc., VP, Clinical Research and Development at Lipid Sciences, Inc. and was Co-founder, VP, Clinical Affairs and Senior Clinical Research Fellow of Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Johansson was a medical adviser with executive responsibilities at Pharmacia bringing one lipid lowering product to the market and heading the apolipoproteinA-IMilano clinical program.
Jan earned his M.D. and Ph.D. at the Karolinska Institute in
Kenneth Lebioda, BA
Senior VP Business & Corporate Development
Ken is responsible for the business and corporate development of the company’s technology pipeline and alliance management.
Gregory S. Wagner, Ph.D., DABT
Senior VP Research & Development
Greg oversees the company’s preclinical programs and provides extensive expertise in the areas of drug development, regulatory filings, and toxicology.
Dr. F. Allan Gordon, M.D., Ph.D
Senior Vice President of Clinical Development
Allan will lead Resverlogix through clinical development.
Over the past 20 years Allan has built up a successful career as a Research and Development professional in cardiology. With his expertise and understanding of the market place, he is able to uniquely motivate teams of scientists on both the levels of discovery and applicability. Prior to joining Resverlogix, Allan was the CEO for Nile Therapeutics, an early stage bio-pharmaceutical in cardiovascular science, particularly in acute heart failure. Moreover, Allan led the international development program for Natrecor at Scios Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. In addition to this work in the
Allan received his M.D. and Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute in
Theresa Kennedy, B.Sc.
VP Corporate Communications
Theresa is responsible for all internal and external corporate communications.
Theresa has spent the past 17 years in the biotechnology industry in a variety of leadership positions. Her experience is focused on corporate positioning, executive profiling, media strategy, stakeholder outreach and government relations. While at Hill & Knowlton, some of her clients included large and small U.S. and Canadian biotechnology companies. In addition, she did work for a variety of international federal governments. Recently Theresa was appointed by the Federal Government of Canada to the Board of Directors of the Assisted Human Reproduction Canada Agency. She is a guest lecturer for Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation, which included lecturing on the topic of strategic communications in biotechnology at







