Valeri Melekhov

Valeri Melekhov is a Pharma industry veteran of over 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry, with broad experience in product licensing, product and business development, alliance management, marketing and sales as well as operations management. He has exceptional abilities to conceive, plan, develop and execute complex projects. Multi-lingual, he is a voracious learner with a solid complementary core of knowledge in pharma industry, technology, and in economics.

Valeri currently serves on the Advisory Boards of two medical manufacturing companies in the Greater New York City Area. He also serves as President of Coryn Pharmaceuticals LLC, a start-up company dedicated to the development of drug addiction treatment medicines and non-addictive pain management drugs, in collaboration with an international drug development team of pharmaceutical scientists and academics in the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. In addition, Valeri is currently the CEO and Founder of Aquarius Ventures LLC, providing consulting services to clients in the pharmaceutical industry, including the development of new drug products specializing in transdermal and topical formulations, as well as drug products based on natural and synthetic cannabinoids.

Valeri’s previous experience included over 15 years as Director of Business Development for Rhodes Technologies, a subsidiary of Purdue Pharma LP, which specializes in controlled drug substance manufacturing, including synthetic and semisynthetic opioids and synthetic cannabinoids. Prior to that, Valeri spent over four years with Purdue Pharma and its subsidiaries developing innovative technologies and proprietary fiber optic software for dissolution testing of different dosage forms, after initially serving as Director, Licensing and Business Development, responsible for assessing the business viability and developing the business plan establishing the new technology.

Valeri earned his MS of Chemical Technology at Lomonosov University for Fine Chemical Technology (Moscow, Russia) in 1973, and his MBA, Marketing and Finance at the University of Connecticut in 2002. During the interim, Valeri continued his studies as the job required, and earned his Certified IP Manager, IP Management and Technology Licensing degree from the National Institute of Intellectual Property in 1977, followed by an MS in Management of International Trade Operations from the National Academy of Foreign Trade in 1988.