Mark Nawacki, CPA, CA, Mr. Nawacki has been a Director of IntelGenx Technologies Corp. since August 2016. Prior to his appointment, from February to July 2016, Mr. Nawacki was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of IntelGenx Corp., which provides advice to the Company’s management team. Since February 2015, Mark Nawacki has been the President and CEO of Searchlight Pharma Inc., a Canadian-based private specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition and commercialization of innovative and unique healthcare and pharmaceutical products. He is also a director of Searchlight Pharma Inc. From September 2003 to September 2014, Mr. Nawacki served as Executive Vice President, Business and Corporate Development of Paladin Labs, where he spent more than 11 years building out the company’s commercial and geographic footprint. During his 11-year tenure at Paladin, Mr. Nawacki helped shape the therapeutic focus of Paladin’s Canadian business via licensing and acquisitions and built Paladin’s international expansion and emerging markets strategy.
The Board believes that Mr. Nawacki’s executive management experience, various board positions, and scientific expertise as well as his life sciences industry, business development, and licensing transactional experience, qualifies him to serve on the Board of Directors.