At Adagio, our goal is to develop and commercialize differentiated antibody-based solutions with broadly neutralizing activity for the treatment and prevention of diseases caused by SARS CoV-2, its variants and additional SARS-like viruses with pandemic potential. To enable this, our discovery efforts are focused on broadly neutralizing antibodies that target conserved epitopes across multiple members of the coronavirus family.
We also plan to leverage our robust antibody discovery and development capabilities to develop therapeutic or preventative options for other respiratory viral infections, such as seasonal and pandemic influenza.
We were founded in June 2020 to develop a portfolio of anti-coronavirus antibodies discovered by Adimab for both the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 and future coronavirus outbreaks. Our founding scientists discovered ADG20, our lead product candidate, while working at Adimab, an industry leader in translating target hypotheses into therapeutically relevant antibodies. The Adimab platform has been used in more than 385 antibody discovery and optimization programs, more than 40 of which have advanced into clinical trials, including five programs in pivotal clinical trials.
Management Team

David Hering, M.B.A
Chief Executive Officer & Director

Jill Andersen, J.D.
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary

Becky Dabora, Ph.D.
Chief Technology & Manufacturing Officer

Jane Pritchett Henderson
Chief Financial & Business Officer

Ellie Hershberger, Pharm.D.
Chief Development Officer

Eric Kimble, M.B.A.
Chief Commercial Officer

Laura Walker, Ph.D.
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Tillman U. Gerngross, Ph.D.
Bio
Tillman U. Gerngross, Ph.D. is our co-founder and has served as a member of our board of directors and as our chief executive officer since June 2020. Dr. Gerngross is a founder, director and executive officer of numerous biotechnology companies. He is a co-founder of Adimab, LLC and has served as its chief executive officer and as a director since 2007. He is also a co-founder and chairman of Avitide, Inc. since August 2012, a co-founder and chairman of Alector, Inc. since September 2017, a co-founder, president and chairman of Amagma, Inc. since August 2019 and a co-founder, president and chairman of Ankyra Therapeutics, Inc. since November 2019.
Dr. Gerngross is currently a venture partner at SV Life Sciences Advisors, LLC, which he joined in 2006. Dr. Gerngross co-founded GlycoFi, Inc. and served as its chief scientific officer from 2000 to 2006 until it was acquired by Merck & Company, Inc. Dr. Gerngross currently teaches at the Thayer School of Engineering, at Dartmouth College, where he has taught since 1998. Dr. Gerngross received a B.S. and M.S. in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Technical University of Vienna.

Becky Dabora, Ph.D.
Bio
Rebecca Dabora, Ph.D. has served as our chief technology & manufacturing officer since July 2020. In addition, Dr. Dabora is currently serving as principal for RDBio Consulting LLC since July 2005. Prior to joining Adagio, Dr. Dabora served as interim chief technology officer of SwanBio Therapeutics, Inc. from July 2019 to July 2020 and chief technology officer of Aspyrian Therapeutics, Inc. from March 2016 to March 2017. Dr. Dabora received a B.A. in biochemistry from Bowdoin College and a Ph.D. in applied biological sciences and biochemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lynn Connolly, M.D., Ph.D.
Bio
Lynn Connolly, M.D., Ph.D. has served as our chief medical officer since July 2020. Prior to joining Adagio, Dr. Connolly served as senior vice president, clinical research from March 2020 to July 2020 and vice president, clinical research from March 2018 to February 2020 of Vir Biotechnology, Inc. Dr. Connolly served as vice president and head of late development from January 2017 to March 2018 and senior medical director from January 2016 to January 2017 of Achaogen, Inc. Dr. Connolly received a B.A. in molecular biology from University of California, Berkeley and a M.D. and Ph.D. in cell biology from University of California, San Francisco.

Jane Pritchett Henderson
Bio
Jane Pritchett Henderson serves as our chief financial and business officer. In addition, Ms. Henderson has served as a director and chair of the audit committee of Akero Therapeutics, Inc. since April 2019 and IVERIC bio, Inc. since January 2018, and as a director of Ventus since November 2021. Prior to joining Adagio, Ms. Henderson served as chief financial officer of Turnstone Biologics from June 2018 to December 2020, chief financial officer and senior vice president, corporate development of Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. from January 2017 to June 2018 and senior vice president and chief financial & business officer of Kolltan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from February 2013 to November 2016. Ms. Henderson received a B.S. in psychology from Duke University.

David Hering, M.B.A.
Bio
David Hering, MBA is our chief executive officer and a member of our Board of Directors. Prior to joining Adagio, Mr. Hering served as the head of the mRNA global franchise business of Pfizer, Inc. from April 2021 to June 2021, the president of North America Vaccines of Pfizer, Inc. from December 2018 to April 2021 and the vaccines commercial officer of Pfizer, Inc. from June 2015 to December 2018. Before joining Pfizer in 2015, Mr. Hering spent seven years at Novartis Vaccines, where he held the position of head of the North America region. Mr. Hering received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University.

Elham (Ellie) Hershberger, Pharm.D.
Bio
Elham (Ellie) Hershberger, Pharm.D. has served as our chief development officer since June 2020. Prior to joining Adagio, Dr. Hershberger served as president of EMH Consulting Group, Inc. from July 2017 to October 2020 and as head of clinical development of Visterra, Inc. from January 2016 to July 2017. Dr. Hershberger received a B.S. in chemistry from University of Minnesota and a Pharm.D. from Ferris State University.

Eric Kimble, M.B.A.
Bio
Eric Kimble, MBA has served as chief commercial officer since September 2020. Prior to joining Adagio, Mr. Kimble served as chief commercial officer for Entasis Therapeutics, Inc. from April 2019 to September 2020 and as a consultant for various emerging biotechnology companies from June 2013 to April 2019. Mr. Kimble received an A.B. in English literature and business economics from Brown University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Laura Walker, Ph.D.
Bio
Laura Walker, Ph.D. is our co-founder and has served as our chief scientific officer since June 2020. In addition, Dr. Walker has served in various roles at Adimab, LLC, including group leader since May 2012, and has served as senior director of antibody sciences since October 2019. Dr. Walker received a B.S. in biochemistry from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from The Scripps Research Institute.

Jill Andersen, J.D.
Bio
Jill Andersen, J.D. has served as chief legal officer and corporate secretary since November 2021. She joins Adagio from Oyster Point Pharma where she served as general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer, and recently led and supported critical components of the company’s first FDA approval and product launch. Prior to that, she was with Bristol Myers Squibb, following the Celgene acquisition, and served as vice president, head of legal for the inflammation & immunology global franchise. Prior to joining Celgene, she held positions of increasing responsibility at Novartis, including senior leadership roles in legal and compliance at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Novartis Consumer Health and Novartis Services. Ms. Andersen has worked extensively on matters related to product development, marketing approval and commercialization, including product launches across multiple therapeutic areas. Her experience also spans corporate governance, securities, corporate transactions, IP, litigation and investigations. Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry, she was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and was a litigation associate at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. She holds a J.D. from Wake Forest University, School of Law and a B.S. in finance from Boston College.
Terry McGuire
Bio
Terrance McGuire has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2020. Mr. McGuire has extensive expertise in the biotechnology industry, having spent his career in venture capital and as a director of several biotechnology companies. Mr. McGuire is a founding partner of Polaris Partners, a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare companies, since 1996. In addition, Mr. McGuire also currently serves on the boards of directors of Cyclerion Therapeutics since 2019, Seer since 2017, Alector since 2013 , and Adimab, LLC since August 2007. Mr. McGuire received a B.S. in physics and economics from Hobart College, an MBA from Harvard Business School and an M.S. in engineering from the Thayer School at Dartmouth College.
Tom Heyman
Bio
Tom Heyman has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2021. Mr. Heyman previously served as the president of Johnson & Johnson’s Corporate Venture Capital Group from April 2015 to September 2019 and as the global head of business development for Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceutical Group from March 1992 to March 2015. In addition, Mr. Heyman previously served as chief executive officer of Janssen Pharmaceuticals from November 2008 to November 2016. Mr. Heyman has served as a director of OptiNose, Inc. since December 2020 and a director of Akero Therapeutics, Inc. since June 2020. Mr. Heyman received his Master of Laws from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Michael Wyzga
Bio
Michael Wyzga is the president of MSW Consulting, Inc., a private company focused on strategic biotechnology consulting, a position he has held since November 2013. Prior to that, he served as president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Radius Health, Inc. From 1993 to 2011, Mr. Wyzga served in various senior management positions at Genzyme Corporation, including as executive vice president, finance and as chief financial officer. During his time with Genzyme, Mr. Wyzga played key roles in the successful development and commercialization of a number of important therapies, including Cerezyme for Gauche disease, Fabrazyme for Fabry’s disease, Renagel for use in the treatment of dialysis patients and Campath for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Mr. Wyzga has served on a number of public company boards, including at Mereo BioPharma Group plc, OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc., X4 Pharmaceuticals, GenSight Biologics, LogicBio Therapeutics, Akebia Therapeutics, Inc., Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Prosensa Holding B.V. Mr. Wyzga received an MBA from Providence College and a B.S. from Suffolk University.
Redonda Miller, M.D., MBA
Bio
Redonda Miller, M.D., MBA, has served as the president of The Johns Hopkins Hospital since 2016 and has advanced the hospital’s focus on providing exceptional clinical care, enhancing quality, safety and the patient experience, and improving health equity and outcomes for residents in Baltimore City. During her tenure, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has consistently been recognized for extraordinary care, maintaining its rank among the top hospitals in the nation on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll and earning its fourth consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. Dr. Miller arrived at Johns Hopkins as a medical student in 1988 and joined the medical faculty in 1997. Since 2004, she has served in several administrative roles of increasing responsibility, including vice chair of clinical operations for the Department of Medicine, vice president of medical affairs for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and senior vice president of medical affairs for the Johns Hopkins Health System. In 2020, Dr. Miller was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine and the Maryland Chamber of Commerce Business Hall of Fame. She holds an M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, an MBA from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and a B.S. in biology from The Ohio State University.
Tamsin Berry
Bio
Tamsin Berry has served as a partner at Population Health Partners, a global investment firm, since June 2020. Since November 2021, she has served as non-executive director, and also as a board member, of the Global Pathogen Analysis Service, a not-for-profit pathogen surveillance bioinformatics company. Since March 2021, she has served as an advisor to EQRx, a biotechnology firm. Since December 2020, she has served as advisor to University of Oxford for the Global Health Security Consortium, which includes University of Oxford, the Tony Blair Institute and the Ellison Institute of Transformative Medicine. From February 2019 to March 2020, she served as the director of the UK Office for Life Sciences, where she worked with Sir John Bell to write the UK’s Life Sciences Industrial Strategy. She previously served as Deputy Director of the UK Office for Life Sciences, from November 2015 to February 2019. Ms. Berry has held a number of leadership positions in government, spanning policy, corporate, and communications roles at the Cabinet Office, Department of Health, and Public Health England. From March 2020 to June 2020, her final role was in the COVID Taskforce, where Ms. Berry was the senior responsible officer for serology and seroprevalence at the start of the pandemic and was awarded an OBE for her work. Ms. Berry received a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Nottingham and a master’s degree from the University of Leeds.
Marc Elia
Bio
Marc Elia has served as the founder and chief investment officer of M28 Capital Management L.P., a healthcare sector investment fund, since September 2019. Prior to that, from January 2012 to September 2019, Mr. Elia served as a partner at Bridger Capital, an investment fund. Mr. Elia serves on the board of directors of SQZ Biotechnology, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, and Fractyl Health Inc., an organ editing metabolic therapeutics company. Prior to his career in investing, Mr. Elia held various roles across the biotechnology industry at N30 Pharmaceuticals, Chiron Corporation, and L.E.K. Consulting. Mr. Elia served as a director of the Company from July 2020 to April 2021. Mr. Elia holds a B.A. in Economics from Carleton College.
Clive A. Meanwell, M.D.
Bio
Clive A. Meanwell, M.D. has served as the executive chair and co-founder of Population Health Partners, a global investment firm, since May 2020. Dr. Meanwell is also the co-founder of Population Health Investment Co., Inc., a special purpose acquisition company, and has been its Chief Executive Officer and director since September 2020. Dr. Meanwell was a founder of The Medicines Company and was a director of The Medicines Company from 1996 until The Medicines Company was acquired by Novartis in January 2020. From December 2018 until January 2020, Dr. Meanwell served as The Medicine Company’s chief innovation officer. Prior to December 2018, he served as The Medicine Company’s chief executive officer since February 2012, The Medicine Company’s chief executive officer and president from October 2009 to February 2012, The Medicine Company’s chief executive officer from August 2004 to October 2009, as The Medicine Company’s president from August 2004 to December 2004, The Medicine Company’s executive chairman from September 2001 to August 2004 and The Medicine Company’s chief executive officer and president from 1996 to September 2001. Dr. Meanwell was also chairman of The Medicine Company’s board from September 2001 to August 2015. Dr. Meanwell is the vice chairman of BB Biotech, a Swiss investment corporation. He serves on the board of directors of EQRx, a biotechnology firm, Fractyl Health, Inc., an organ editing metabolic therapeutics company, Comanche Biopharma, a biotechnology firm, Saama, a clinical research software firm, and Hugo Health, a clinical research software firm. From 1995 to 1996, Dr. Meanwell was a partner and managing director at MPM Capital, L.P., a venture capital firm. From 1986 to 1995, Dr. Meanwell held various positions at Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, including senior vice president from 1992 to 1995, vice president from 1991 to 1992 and director of product development from 1986 to 1991. Dr. Meanwell received an M.B. Ch.B. and an MD summa cum laude degree from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Board of Directors
Tamsin Berry
Partner, Population Health Partners
Marc Elia
Founder and Chief Investment Officer, M28 Capital Management L.P., Chairperson of the Board
David Hering, M.B.A
Chief Executive Officer & Director
Tom Heyman
Former President, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation (JJDC)
Terry McGuire
Partner, Polaris Partners
Clive A. Meanwell, M.D.
Executive Chair and Co-founder, Population Health Partners
Redonda Miller, M.D., MBA
President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Michael Wyzga
President, MSW Consulting, Inc.