Management
Gary V. Cantrell, CEO
Mr. Cantrell has 30 years of experience in the life sciences industry ranging from clinical experience as a respiratory therapist while attending college to his recent appointment as CEO of Yasoo Health. Most recently, he was President of The Catevo Group, a Raleigh, NC based health care consulting firm. Prior to that, he was Executive VP, Sales and Marketing for TEAMM Pharmaceuticals, an Accentia Biopharmaceuticals company, where he lead all commercial activities for a public specialty pharmaceutical business. His previous 22 years were at GSK where he held progressively senior management positions in sales, marketing and business development. Mr. Cantrell is a graduate of Wichita State University and serves as an advisor to several emerging life science companies along with his role as Board Advisor to the North Carolina State University Supply Chain Resource Consortium, focusing on Biopharmaceuticals.
Konstantinos (Gus) Papas, MD, VP, Medical and Regulatory Affairs
Konstantinos Papas, Vice President, Medical and Regulatory Affairs, received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his residency at Stanford University and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. Dr. Papas also holds a Masters degree in Public Health Policy and Administration.
Isaias Ioannides, VP International Operations
Mr. Ioannides, has more than 20 years of business experience from start-ups to large multinational companies in management, operations, geographic expansion and business development. He previously worked for Organon in the Middle East and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Ioannides has extensive experience managing area teams, customer relationships, marketing, sales, product launches, distributors, contract manufacturing, logistics and international tendering for numerous countries in the Middle East, Africa and Iran. He is educated to postgraduate level and speaks several languages.
Robin Wilson, VP Finance/Controller
Robin Wilson, Vice President Finance/Controller, has over 20 years of professional experience, having served as Financial Analyst for Cardinal Health and Controller for TEAMM Pharmaceuticals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals. Her key responsibilities have included financial reporting and analysis, budget/forecast modeling and system design for process improvement. Robin received her Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Organizational Development from Mount Olive College and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Professional Accounting from Strayer University.
Vicky Hadjivassiliou, PhD, Regulatory & Scientific Support Manager for International Operations
Vicky Hadjivassiliou received her BSc from the University of Birmingham, UK, in Biochemistry and her PhD from the University of Sussex, UK, in the area of Diabetes. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego in the area of gene therapy for Diabetes. Upon joining Yasoo Health, Dr. Hadjivassiliou received funding from the Research Promotion Foundation in Cyprus, and was responsible for grant writing and for the management of a number of research projects at Yasoo Health. In her current role she is responsible for the regulatory work, and provides scientific support to our commercial team and all our distributors as part of the International Operations.
John A Hyatt, PhD, Director of Research
John Hyatt, Director of Research, earned his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Ohio State University and was a postdoctoral Fellow in the Dept. of Chemistry at Harvard University, where he worked in natural products chemistry under Nobel laureate R.B. Woodward. Dr. Hyatt was a Research Fellow at Eastman Chemical Co.'s research labs prior to joining Yasoo Health. He holds a concurrent appointment as Research Professor in Chemistry at East Tennessee State University and is the author of over 80 technical papers and US patents in organic chemistry.
Barbara Schreiber, Manager of Sales and Marketing Operations
Barbara Schreiber joined Yasoo Health with 20+ years experience in sales and marketing of both pharmaceutical and biotechnology products, working with Bayer and Bristol Myers Squibb, and with 3 years hospital clinical and research endocrinology laboratory experience. Barbara is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in Biophysics and Microbiology, and is responsible for US sales of all Yasoo Health product lines.
Advisory Board
Chair
K.C. Nicolaou, Ph.D. - Chairman and Professor of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute.
Members
Ronald J. Sokol, M.D. - Professor of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital, University of Colorado.
Jeffrey Blumberg, Ph.D. - Associate Director and Chief Antioxidants Research Laboratory, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University.
Mike Nicolaou Ph.D - President and CEO of Nicopharm Pharmaceutical Solutions Inc.