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.
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 $70 million. In addition to garnering appropriate financing for Resverlogix’s aggressive development plan, Don has strategically directed the Company in its discussion with top global pharmaceutical companies, created new therapeutic markets for its key technology platforms and hired Research & Development staff from international markets. Prior to his current role with Resverlogix Corp., Don spent 25 years as an entrepreneur in trade show and international conference development in various industries including biotechnology. He is former President of BioFuture Conferences, a national event hosting biotechnology researchers, financiers & industry speakers.
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, both in 2004 and 2005. Don is a leader and pioneer in the business community as well, he is a strong supporter and contributor to community organizations including Mount Royal College, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Education Matters and Calgary Urban Project Society ‘CUPS’ Literacy Program.
Norman C.W. Wong, M.D., FRCP
Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board, Co-Founder
Norman is the visionary for the scientific development of Resverlogix’s therapeutic platforms.
Kelly McNeill, B.Comm (Hons), M.Acc, C.A.
Chief Financial Officer
Kelly is responsible for accounting, taxation, finance, treasury, corporate governance and risk management.
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. Esperion was recently bought by Pfizer for $1.3 Billion USD. 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 market development of the company’s technology pipeline and alliance management.
Gregory S. Wagner, Ph.D., DABT
Senior VP Preclinical 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







