Company: MDCXW
Filing Date: 2025-06-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001062993-25-012273
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Company: Medicus Pharma Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-06-30
Form: DEF 14A
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 as a member of the Board since September 2023.

Mr. Ashton is a former Fortune 100 senior executive with over 35 years' experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical business. Mr. Ashton retired from a successful career at Amgen Inc. where he served in various positions since 1989 including Vice President of U.S. Sales, Vice President/General Manager of the Corporate Accounts, and Vice President of Government and Commercial Affairs where he was responsible for working with the FDA, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Advocacy groups.

He previously worked for Boehringer Ingelheim and Warner Lambert Pharmaceuticals.

Mr. Ashton has been the President at Harrison Consulting Group, LLC, a privately held biopharmaceutical/ healthcare consulting firm with expertise in commercialization, payer strategy, and reimbursement since 2013.

He has served on the boards of several publicly traded pharmaceutical companies, namely, Spectrum Oncology, where was Chairman of the Board, Baudax Bio, Societal CDMO, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals and Galena Bio Pharma. On February 22, 2024, Baudax Bio filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the eastern District of Pennsylvania.

In addition, he has served on the boards of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, Friends of the National Library of Medicine, and is a Commissioner on the Medical Representatives National Certification Commission.

Following his extensive pharmaceutical career, Mr. Ashton was the Founding Dean and assistant professor at the Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy (2007 to 2013) at the University of the Sciences of Philadelphia (now St. Joseph University).

Mr. Ashton holds a B.S. in Education from the University of California of Pennsylvania, (now Penn Western University) and a M.A. in Education from the University of Pittsburgh.

The Board believes that Mr. Ashton is qualified to serve as a member of the Board due to his extensive experience in biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries.

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Barry Fishman, Director

Barry Fishman has served as a member of the Board since September 2023.

Mr. Fishman has almost 25 years of experience as an entrepreneurial business leader, he has held executive leadership roles in branded and generic pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly, Taro, Teva, and Merus Labs - a Canadian-based publicly traded international specialty pharmaceutical company focused on branded legacy and growth brands