Sailash Patel

Mr. Patel serves a board member at Meryx, Inc. and has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including leadership roles in start-up and multinational companies. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Strategic Development for Furiex Pharmaceuticals, where he led core business and finance functions. Prior to that, Mr. Patel was the General Manager of BioDuro, a PPD, Inc. company, where he was responsible for all functional aspects of a 700 employee China-based drug discovery unit, providing integrated discovery services to the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to BioDuro, he served as the Vice President of Strategic Development at PPD, where he was responsible for corporate strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and compound partnering business development. He holds an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor's degree in pharmacy with honors from the University of Nottingham in the U.K.