Company: EDSA
Filing Date: 2025-12-12
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001171843-25-007914
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Company: Edesa Biotech, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-12
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1B
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 received his MD from the University of Ottawa and completed his internship at Yale University, and his internal medicine residency and fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Nijhawan’s qualifications to serve on our Board include his extensive executive leadership and experience in the life sciences industry and his knowledge of our business as its chief executive. 

Charles Olson, DSc is a CMC consultant with more than 40 years of biotech experience. Since April 2024 he has also been the Senior Vice President of Technical Operations at NervGen Pharma, responsible for the process development and manufacture of their peptide product in clinical development for nerve regeneration as a result of spinal cord injury. From September 2021 to April 2023 he was Chief Operating Officer at Dendreon Corporation, where he was responsible for the commercial manufacturing of Provenge, a commercial cell-based product for prostate cancer, overseeing multiple sites and several hundred employees. From September 2017 to August 2021, he was a senior Vice President of Operations at Applied Molecular Transport. From April 2010 to August 2017, Dr. Olson held various leadership roles at Anthera Pharmaceuticals Inc., including Chief Technology Officer. He has also been a Principal Biotechnology Consultant for Compass Biotechnology LLC since 2006. Dr. Olson previously held senior and executive management positions at NGM Biopharmaceuticals Inc., Coherus BioSciences Inc., Nexbio Inc., Cell Genesys, Inc., Biomarin Pharmaceuticals, Inc, and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From December 2016 to June 2019, Dr. Olson served on the Board of Edesa Biotech, Inc. (then operating as Stellar Biotechnologies, Inc.), having previously served on Stellar’s scientific advisory board. After graduate school, Dr. Olson was a Research Scientist at Kaiser Hospitals, followed by Scientist and Senior Scientist positions at Genentech and Bayer, respectively. He holds a B.A. in biology and chemistry from Westmont College, an M.A. in chemistry from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a D.Sc. in biochemistry. Dr. Olson qualifications to serve on our Board include his extensive scientific, manufacturing operations, process development and senior management and board experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.

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Carlo Sistilli, CPA, CMA has more than 35 years of financial experience and has held a variety of executive positions in accounting and finance during his career. He has been a member of our Board since June 2019, having previously served