CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards

31 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today Business Women of the Year Awards 2018 CANADA JAN D’ALVISE President & CEO of Acasti Pharma, Inc. ABOUT JAN D’ALVISE Ms. D’Alvise has extensive experience the life science industry, having held executive positions in companies commercializing pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, and drug discovery research tools. Prior to joining Acasti in mid-2016, Ms. D’Alvise was the President and Chairman of Pediatric Bioscience. Before that, she was the CEO of Gish Biomedical, a cardiopulmonary medical device company. Prior to Gish, Ms. D’Alvise was the CEO of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC), a drug discovery research institute, the Co-Founder/ President/CEO/Chairman of NuGEN, Inc., and the Co-Founder and Executive VP/COO of Metrika Inc. Ms. D’Alvise built NuGEN and Metrika from technology concept through to successful regulatory approvals, product introduction and sustainable revenue growth. Prior to her experience as an entrepreneur, Ms. D’Alvise held the positions of VP of Drug Development at Syntex/Roche and Business Unit Director of their Pain and Inflammation business, and VP of Commercial Operations at SYVA (Syntex’s clinical diagnostics division). She began her career with Diagnostic Products Corporation where she ran global sales, marketing and service. Ms. D’Alvise has a B.S. in Biochemistry from Michigan Technological University. She has completed post-graduate work at the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and the Wharton Business Schools. Ms. D’Alvise has served on the board of numerous private companies and non-profits, and is an Entrepreneur- in-Residence for the von Liebig Institute for Entrepreneurship at the University of California, San Diego. FIRM PROFILE Acasti is a biopharmaceutical innovator focused on the research, development and commercialization of prescription drugs using omega-3 fatty acids derived from krill oil. Omega-3 fatty acids have extensive clinical evidence of safety and efficacy in lowering triglycerides in patients with hypertriglyceridemia. Market research commissioned by Acasti* suggests there is an important market need for an effective, safe and well-absorbing omega-3 therapeutic with a positive impact on the major lipids associated with cardiovascular disease risk. Since August 2008, Acasti is focused on addressing this important unmet market need. Acasti’s lead product candidate is CaPre® (omega-3 phospholipid), which the company is developing in a Phase 3 program for the treatment of severe hypertriglyceridemia, a condition characterized by abnormally high levels of triglycerides in the bloodstream (over 500 mg/dL). Acasti believes the potential exists to expand CaPre’s indication to treat individuals with high levels of triglycerides (200 – 499 mg/ dL), which may require additional comparative studies or outcome trials, assuming positive outcome study data in the next two years from two competitors. In addition, Acasti may seek to identify new potential indications for CaPre that may be appropriate for future studies and pipeline expansion. www.acastipharma.com