Terry Downey-Freiman MSN RN OCN, US Medical Affairs, Senior Field Medical Liason, Geron Corporation
Hired - October 2022
10/20/2022 - FOSTER CITY, Calif.- (BUSINESS WIRE) - Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) reported that it has granted non-statutory stock options to purchase an aggregate of 843,260 shares of Geron common stock as inducements to newly hired employees in connection with commencement of employment with the Company. Terry Downey-Freiman is one of these newly hired employees.
Terry Downey-Freiman's former employers include: Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Merrimack, Quintiles, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, University of Pennsylvania Health System
*Geron continues to attract Big Pharma Top-tier talent as they establish clinical evidence of Imetelstat being a FIC Platform Drug with the possibility of disease modification. -Kmall
US Medical Liason Team continues to grow.......
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US Medical Liason Team continues to grow.......
Last edited by kmall on Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: US Medical Liason Team continues to grow.......
Known current Geron Employees as of 1/30/2023 and their initial hiring dates –
* Former Janssen employee
** Former JNJ employee
+ Part-time or Consultant
Management:
1 - CEO – Dr. John A. Scarlett, MD - 2011
2 - CFO – Olivia K. Bloom - 1994
3 - CAO – Melissa A. Kelly Behrs – 1998
4 - CBO – Edward Koval - 2021
5 - COO – Andrew J. Grethlein - 2012
6 - CCO* – Anil Kapur - 2019
7 - CMO* – Faye Feller, MD - 2019
8 - CLO – Stephen N. Rosenfield - 2011
Clinical – Operations, Science, Development:
Faye Feller*(7), MD – CMO – 2019
9 - Shyamala Navada* - Executive Medical Director, MD
10 - Laurie Sherman* – VP Clinical Operations – 2019
11 - Souria Dougherty* - Ex Director Clinical Science - 2019
12 - Tymara Berry – Ex Director Clinical Development - 2020
13 - Dr. Vivian Rodolf - Medical Director - 2022
14 - Sheetal Shah – Sr Director – 2020
15 - Denise Redding – Director - 2021
16 - Jeff Ryel – Director Clinical Operations - 2020
17 - Brandie Jonas – Sr Director, Clinical Program Management – 2019
18 - F Matthew Bakthasekaran - Sr Manger, Clinical Program Management - 2022
19 - Miranda Chrisp - Associate Director, Clinical Program Management - 2023
20 - Judy Ho - Sr Manager - 2022
21 - Natasha M - Associate Director, Clinical Research - 2021
22 - Manoj Jivani - Director Clinical Operations - 2022
23 - Kate Turner - Associate Director Clinical Operations - 2022
24 - Jennifer Riggs* - Associate Director Clinical Science - 2022
25 – Carolina Jacobs – Sr Project Manager - 2012
26 - Daria Zielinska – Sr Scientist – 2001
27 - Ron Pruzan – Principal Scientist – 2010
28 – Yelena Polonskaya – Sr Research Associate - 2001
29 - Barbara Mandelkow (Germany) Lab Assistant - 2017
30 - Janet Ahern(+) - Clinical Research Consultant - 2022
31 - Dr. Aleksandra Rizo*(+) - Sr. Medical and Regulatory Advisor - 2019
(currently employed at Vividion and Geron)
32 - Mebratu Gebreyesus(+) - Sr Development Associate - 2010
(currently employed at Bayer, Celltheon and Geron)
33 - Kerry Mundt(+) – CT Assistant – 2010
(currently employed by Pharmacyclics/Abbvie and Geron)
Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety/Information:
34 - Patti N. – Ex Director Drug Safety – 2020
35 - Annat Ikin - Director Medical Writing – 2021
Business Development:
Melissa A. Kelly Behrs (3) – Chief Alliance Officer – 2014
Edward Koval (4) – CBO - 2021
Anil Kapur* (6) - COO - 2019
36 - Jason Grossman - Ex Director, Commercial Operations - 2022
37 - Nishan Sengupta** - VP, Market-Access, Pricing, Evidence Strategy - 2021
38 - Scott Hutson** - VP Sales - 2022
39 - Denise Meyer – VP Medical Affairs – 2022
40 - Peter A. Avalos** - VP Trade & Channel Relations - 2022
41 - Oliver Gessner* - Sr. Director, Business Insights and Analytics, Hematology - 2022
42 - Lorraine Shui** - VP Marketing - 2022
43 - Christopher Cornell - Sr. Field Medical Liaison - 2022
44 - Natasha Moningka, Ph.D - Senior Medical Field Liason - 2022
45 - Terry Downey-Freiman - Senior Medical Field Liason - 2022
46 - Helen Lee – Sr. Reporting Analyst - 2012
47 - Anthony Kuczynski – Business System Manager - 2019
48 - Aron Feingold - VP Investor Relations & Corporate Communication - 2022
Finance:
Olivia K. Bloom (2) – CFO – 1994
49 - Karen Boyce – VP -2008
50 - Andrew Good – Ex Director – 2006
51 - Gilian Fong – Director – 2021
52 – Iasko Cable – Sr. Clinical Trial Accountant – 2019
53 – Dave Clark – CPA, Corporate Controller - 2022
54 - Katherine Harmon, CPA, Assistant Controller - 2022
Data Management:
55 - Ben Thorp - Head of Clinical Data Management - 2022
56 - Sarfraz Haroon - Associate Director, Clinical Data Management - 2022
57 - Rana F.* – Director, Statistical Programming - 2020
58 - Sridevi Sridhar, CCDM – Associate Director – 2021
59 - Aswin Jayaraman - Director, IT Applications - 2022
Manufacturing:
60 - Patrick Murphy – VP Manufacturing – 2019
61 - Eric Mueller – Director – 2019
62 - Leslie C. – CMC Director - 2021
63 - Bharat Baral* – CMC Manager – 2021 & 2011
64 - William Garzon-Rodriguez* - Associate Director Drug Product Manufacturing – 2021
65 - Tim Tickner – Director, Supply Chain Management – 2022
Regulatory:
66 - Sharon McBain* - VP Global - 2019
67 - Shirin Mirshamsi* – Director EU – 2019
68 - Ilesh Sanathra* - Director Global – 2020
69 - Nick Lyon** –Sr Director – 2020
70 – Ronan Balicanta* Sr Manager, Submissions - 2022
71 - Tarin Araujo** - Sr Manager US - 2022
72 - Joyce Reader** - Sr Regulatory Consultant (+) - 2022
Biostatistics:
73 - Ying Wan* – VP - 2019
74 - Libo Sun* – Director - 2019
Quality Assurance and Quality Control:
75 - Denise Grippo – VP Quality and Compliance – 2019
76 - Samantha Taylor – QA Manager, Document Control – 2007
77 - Joe Denton – Director – 2019
78 - Damanjit Singh – Sr Manager – 2018
79 - Willie Mobley – Materials/Document Specialist - 2007
80 - Leah Wood – Manager – 2021
81 - Murugappa Vedachalam (+) – QA/QC/CMC Consultant - 2019
Legal and Intellectual Property:
Stephen L. Rosenfield (8) – CLO – 2011
82 - Pamela Smith – Associate General Counsel - 1999
83 - Christopher Johnson – Director - 2019
84 - Laura Reederson – Director - 2020
85 - Leslie Mooi – VP IP – 2007
86 - Abby B. – Sr Patent Paralegal - 2014
87 - Cheryl Northern – Sr. Contracts Manager – 2007
Facilities Operations and Information Technology:
88 - Michael Yamada – VP -2007
89 - Jyoti Shetty – Sr Director IT – 2021
90 - John Albert - Director Information Technology Infrastructure - 2022
91 - Tim W - Associate Director, IT Business Systems - 2022
92 - Miguel Hundelt – Systems Administrator – 2018
93 – Julian Cornejo - Systems Administrator - 2021
94 - Briana Martinez – Ex Assistant - 2006
95 - Julia Mensing – Ex Assistant – 2011
96 - Stacie W. – Ex Assistant - 2020
97 - Mia Pham – Office Manager - 2020
Human Resources:
98 - Shannon Odam – HR Executive -2019
99 - Stephanie Dellari – Director - 2004
100 - Susan Finan – Employee Benefits – 2021
101 - Marisa Cerniglia - Manager, People Operations – 2021
102 – Jennifer Allen - Associate Director, Talent Acquisition – 2022
103 – Fiona McAuliffe – Talent Acquisition Associate - 2022
***This latest "known" Geron employee roster reflects the most recent additions of:
9 - Shyamala Navada* - Executive Medical Director, MD
19 - Miranda Chrisp - Associate Director, Clinical Program Management
40 - Peter A. Avalos** - VP Trade & Channel Relations
41 - Oliver Gessner* - Sr. Director, Business Insights and Analytics
44 - Natasha Moningka, Ph.D - Senior Medical Field Liason
45 - Terry Downey-Freiman - Senior Medical Field Liason
++ -Departure of (87)Brittney Hernandez - Contracts Manager
* Former Janssen employee
** Former JNJ employee
+ Part-time or Consultant
Management:
1 - CEO – Dr. John A. Scarlett, MD - 2011
2 - CFO – Olivia K. Bloom - 1994
3 - CAO – Melissa A. Kelly Behrs – 1998
4 - CBO – Edward Koval - 2021
5 - COO – Andrew J. Grethlein - 2012
6 - CCO* – Anil Kapur - 2019
7 - CMO* – Faye Feller, MD - 2019
8 - CLO – Stephen N. Rosenfield - 2011
Clinical – Operations, Science, Development:
Faye Feller*(7), MD – CMO – 2019
9 - Shyamala Navada* - Executive Medical Director, MD
10 - Laurie Sherman* – VP Clinical Operations – 2019
11 - Souria Dougherty* - Ex Director Clinical Science - 2019
12 - Tymara Berry – Ex Director Clinical Development - 2020
13 - Dr. Vivian Rodolf - Medical Director - 2022
14 - Sheetal Shah – Sr Director – 2020
15 - Denise Redding – Director - 2021
16 - Jeff Ryel – Director Clinical Operations - 2020
17 - Brandie Jonas – Sr Director, Clinical Program Management – 2019
18 - F Matthew Bakthasekaran - Sr Manger, Clinical Program Management - 2022
19 - Miranda Chrisp - Associate Director, Clinical Program Management - 2023
20 - Judy Ho - Sr Manager - 2022
21 - Natasha M - Associate Director, Clinical Research - 2021
22 - Manoj Jivani - Director Clinical Operations - 2022
23 - Kate Turner - Associate Director Clinical Operations - 2022
24 - Jennifer Riggs* - Associate Director Clinical Science - 2022
25 – Carolina Jacobs – Sr Project Manager - 2012
26 - Daria Zielinska – Sr Scientist – 2001
27 - Ron Pruzan – Principal Scientist – 2010
28 – Yelena Polonskaya – Sr Research Associate - 2001
29 - Barbara Mandelkow (Germany) Lab Assistant - 2017
30 - Janet Ahern(+) - Clinical Research Consultant - 2022
31 - Dr. Aleksandra Rizo*(+) - Sr. Medical and Regulatory Advisor - 2019
(currently employed at Vividion and Geron)
32 - Mebratu Gebreyesus(+) - Sr Development Associate - 2010
(currently employed at Bayer, Celltheon and Geron)
33 - Kerry Mundt(+) – CT Assistant – 2010
(currently employed by Pharmacyclics/Abbvie and Geron)
Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety/Information:
34 - Patti N. – Ex Director Drug Safety – 2020
35 - Annat Ikin - Director Medical Writing – 2021
Business Development:
Melissa A. Kelly Behrs (3) – Chief Alliance Officer – 2014
Edward Koval (4) – CBO - 2021
Anil Kapur* (6) - COO - 2019
36 - Jason Grossman - Ex Director, Commercial Operations - 2022
37 - Nishan Sengupta** - VP, Market-Access, Pricing, Evidence Strategy - 2021
38 - Scott Hutson** - VP Sales - 2022
39 - Denise Meyer – VP Medical Affairs – 2022
40 - Peter A. Avalos** - VP Trade & Channel Relations - 2022
41 - Oliver Gessner* - Sr. Director, Business Insights and Analytics, Hematology - 2022
42 - Lorraine Shui** - VP Marketing - 2022
43 - Christopher Cornell - Sr. Field Medical Liaison - 2022
44 - Natasha Moningka, Ph.D - Senior Medical Field Liason - 2022
45 - Terry Downey-Freiman - Senior Medical Field Liason - 2022
46 - Helen Lee – Sr. Reporting Analyst - 2012
47 - Anthony Kuczynski – Business System Manager - 2019
48 - Aron Feingold - VP Investor Relations & Corporate Communication - 2022
Finance:
Olivia K. Bloom (2) – CFO – 1994
49 - Karen Boyce – VP -2008
50 - Andrew Good – Ex Director – 2006
51 - Gilian Fong – Director – 2021
52 – Iasko Cable – Sr. Clinical Trial Accountant – 2019
53 – Dave Clark – CPA, Corporate Controller - 2022
54 - Katherine Harmon, CPA, Assistant Controller - 2022
Data Management:
55 - Ben Thorp - Head of Clinical Data Management - 2022
56 - Sarfraz Haroon - Associate Director, Clinical Data Management - 2022
57 - Rana F.* – Director, Statistical Programming - 2020
58 - Sridevi Sridhar, CCDM – Associate Director – 2021
59 - Aswin Jayaraman - Director, IT Applications - 2022
Manufacturing:
60 - Patrick Murphy – VP Manufacturing – 2019
61 - Eric Mueller – Director – 2019
62 - Leslie C. – CMC Director - 2021
63 - Bharat Baral* – CMC Manager – 2021 & 2011
64 - William Garzon-Rodriguez* - Associate Director Drug Product Manufacturing – 2021
65 - Tim Tickner – Director, Supply Chain Management – 2022
Regulatory:
66 - Sharon McBain* - VP Global - 2019
67 - Shirin Mirshamsi* – Director EU – 2019
68 - Ilesh Sanathra* - Director Global – 2020
69 - Nick Lyon** –Sr Director – 2020
70 – Ronan Balicanta* Sr Manager, Submissions - 2022
71 - Tarin Araujo** - Sr Manager US - 2022
72 - Joyce Reader** - Sr Regulatory Consultant (+) - 2022
Biostatistics:
73 - Ying Wan* – VP - 2019
74 - Libo Sun* – Director - 2019
Quality Assurance and Quality Control:
75 - Denise Grippo – VP Quality and Compliance – 2019
76 - Samantha Taylor – QA Manager, Document Control – 2007
77 - Joe Denton – Director – 2019
78 - Damanjit Singh – Sr Manager – 2018
79 - Willie Mobley – Materials/Document Specialist - 2007
80 - Leah Wood – Manager – 2021
81 - Murugappa Vedachalam (+) – QA/QC/CMC Consultant - 2019
Legal and Intellectual Property:
Stephen L. Rosenfield (8) – CLO – 2011
82 - Pamela Smith – Associate General Counsel - 1999
83 - Christopher Johnson – Director - 2019
84 - Laura Reederson – Director - 2020
85 - Leslie Mooi – VP IP – 2007
86 - Abby B. – Sr Patent Paralegal - 2014
87 - Cheryl Northern – Sr. Contracts Manager – 2007
Facilities Operations and Information Technology:
88 - Michael Yamada – VP -2007
89 - Jyoti Shetty – Sr Director IT – 2021
90 - John Albert - Director Information Technology Infrastructure - 2022
91 - Tim W - Associate Director, IT Business Systems - 2022
92 - Miguel Hundelt – Systems Administrator – 2018
93 – Julian Cornejo - Systems Administrator - 2021
94 - Briana Martinez – Ex Assistant - 2006
95 - Julia Mensing – Ex Assistant – 2011
96 - Stacie W. – Ex Assistant - 2020
97 - Mia Pham – Office Manager - 2020
Human Resources:
98 - Shannon Odam – HR Executive -2019
99 - Stephanie Dellari – Director - 2004
100 - Susan Finan – Employee Benefits – 2021
101 - Marisa Cerniglia - Manager, People Operations – 2021
102 – Jennifer Allen - Associate Director, Talent Acquisition – 2022
103 – Fiona McAuliffe – Talent Acquisition Associate - 2022
***This latest "known" Geron employee roster reflects the most recent additions of:
9 - Shyamala Navada* - Executive Medical Director, MD
19 - Miranda Chrisp - Associate Director, Clinical Program Management
40 - Peter A. Avalos** - VP Trade & Channel Relations
41 - Oliver Gessner* - Sr. Director, Business Insights and Analytics
44 - Natasha Moningka, Ph.D - Senior Medical Field Liason
45 - Terry Downey-Freiman - Senior Medical Field Liason
++ -Departure of (87)Brittney Hernandez - Contracts Manager
Last edited by kmall on Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:00 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Re: US Medical Liason Team continues to grow.......
Former Janssen and JNJ employees now at Geron:
Janssen -
1. Dr. Aleksandra Rizo - Sr. Medical and Regulatory Advisor - 2019
2. Dr. Faye Feller, MD – CMO – 2019
3. Shyamala Navada, MD - Executive Medical Director - 2023
4. Laurie Sherman – VP Clinical Operations – 2019
5. Souria Dougherty - Ex Director Clinical Science - 2019
6. Jennifer Riggs - Associate Director Clinical Science - 2022
7. Anil Kapur - COO - 2019
8. Oliver Gessner - Sr. Director, Business Insights and Analytics, Hematology - 2022
9. Rana F. – Director, Statistical Programming - 2020
10. Bharat Baral – CMC Manager – 2021 & 2011
11. William Garzon-Rodriguez - Associate Director Drug Product Manufacturing – 2021
12. Sharon McBain - VP Global Regulatory - 2019
13. Shirin Mirshamsi – Director EU, Regulatory – 2019
14. Ilesh Sanathra - Director Global, Regulatory – 2020
15. Ronan Balicanta - Sr Manager, Regulatory Submissions - 2022
16. Ying Wan – VP, Biostatistics - 2019
17. Libo Sun – Director, Biostatistics - 2019
JNJ
1. Nishan Sengupta - VP, Market-Access, Pricing, Evidence Strategy - 2021
2. Scott Hutson - VP Sales - 2022
3. Lorraine Shui - VP Marketing - 2022
4. Nick Lyon - Sr Director UK, Regulatory - 2020
5. Tarin Araujo - Sr Manager US, Regulatory - 2022
6. Joyce Reader - Sr Regulatory Consultant UK, Regulatory - 2022
7. Peter A. Avalos - VP Trade & Channel Relations - 2022
***As of now, this is the current list of "known" ex-Janssen and ex-JNJ employees now working at Geron. Most likely more to come. -Kmall
Janssen -
1. Dr. Aleksandra Rizo - Sr. Medical and Regulatory Advisor - 2019
2. Dr. Faye Feller, MD – CMO – 2019
3. Shyamala Navada, MD - Executive Medical Director - 2023
4. Laurie Sherman – VP Clinical Operations – 2019
5. Souria Dougherty - Ex Director Clinical Science - 2019
6. Jennifer Riggs - Associate Director Clinical Science - 2022
7. Anil Kapur - COO - 2019
8. Oliver Gessner - Sr. Director, Business Insights and Analytics, Hematology - 2022
9. Rana F. – Director, Statistical Programming - 2020
10. Bharat Baral – CMC Manager – 2021 & 2011
11. William Garzon-Rodriguez - Associate Director Drug Product Manufacturing – 2021
12. Sharon McBain - VP Global Regulatory - 2019
13. Shirin Mirshamsi – Director EU, Regulatory – 2019
14. Ilesh Sanathra - Director Global, Regulatory – 2020
15. Ronan Balicanta - Sr Manager, Regulatory Submissions - 2022
16. Ying Wan – VP, Biostatistics - 2019
17. Libo Sun – Director, Biostatistics - 2019
JNJ
1. Nishan Sengupta - VP, Market-Access, Pricing, Evidence Strategy - 2021
2. Scott Hutson - VP Sales - 2022
3. Lorraine Shui - VP Marketing - 2022
4. Nick Lyon - Sr Director UK, Regulatory - 2020
5. Tarin Araujo - Sr Manager US, Regulatory - 2022
6. Joyce Reader - Sr Regulatory Consultant UK, Regulatory - 2022
7. Peter A. Avalos - VP Trade & Channel Relations - 2022
***As of now, this is the current list of "known" ex-Janssen and ex-JNJ employees now working at Geron. Most likely more to come. -Kmall