Todd has over 25 years of experience in both public and private companies, primarily in the life science and healthcare fields. As the CFO of multiple companies, he has negotiated with investors and strategic partners to raise over $320 million in capital through the issuance of equity and debt, and the out-licensing of technology. Prior to joining Nucleix, Todd was the chief financial officer of Astute Medical, which was acquired in 2018 by bioMerieux, a multinational biotechnology company headquartered in France. While with Astute, he played a lead role in raising equity and debt capital to support the research, clinical/product development and commercialization of NephroCheck®, the first FDA cleared diagnostic for acute kidney injury, as well a lead role in Astute’s sales process. He was responsible for all finance and general and administrative activities at both Astute and its wholly-owned subsidiary in Europe. Prior to Astute, Todd was the chief financial officer at SGX Pharmaceuticals, a publicly-traded company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative cancer therapeutics, until its acquisition by Eli Lilly & Company. He was also the Director of Finance at CombiChem, Inc., a publicly-traded computational drug discovery company, which was acquired by DuPont Pharmaceuticals. Todd began his career as an auditor in the San Diego office of Ernst & Young and obtained a B.S. in accounting from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
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