Dr. Gerwin Westfield
Senior VP of Scientific Affairs
Dr. Gerwin Westfield, a distinguished leader in the medical and pharmaceutical fields whose work has contributed to a Nobel Prize (Chemistry), previously served with the company from 2015 to 2021, including as Director of Medical Affairs. Most recently, he was Vice President of Medical Affairs for Everly Health, a private, venture-backed healthcare company. His expertise is in directing essential products, trials, and services within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, including medical and scientific affairs, patient advocacy and partnering with regulatory affairs, business development, and sales and marketing at high-growth life sciences enterprises. Prior to originally joining Aytu BioPharma in 2015, Dr. Westfield worked for Arbor Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Westfield received a Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry and B.S. in Biology from University of Michigan. Dr. Westfield is credited with over twenty peer-reviewed publications and white papers, numerous poster presentations and professional lectures, and has won multiple prestigious academic awards and fellowships.
Josh Disbrow
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Disbrow has been employed by us since April 16, 2015, and a member of our Board of Directors since January 2016. Prior to the closing of the merger between Luoxis Diagnostics, Inc. (“Luoxis”) and Vyrix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. that formed Aytu, Mr. Disbrow was the Chief Executive Officer of Luoxis since January 2013. Mr. Disbrow jointly served as the Chief Operating Officer of Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Ampio”), a public biotechnology company, from December 2012 until April 2015. Prior to joining Ampio, he served as the Vice President of Commercial Operations at Arbor Pharmaceuticals, LLC (“Arbor”), a private specialty pharmaceutical company, from May 2007 through October 2012. He joined Arbor as the company’s second full-time employee and led the company’s commercial efforts from inception to the company’s acquisition in 2010 and growth to over $250 million in net sales in 2012. By the time Mr. Disbrow departed Arbor in late 2012, he had led the growth of the commercial organization that included a nationwide sales force, marketing, sales training, managed care, national accounts, distribution and other commercial functions. Mr. Disbrow has spent 27 years in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device industries and has held positions of increasing responsibility in sales, sales management, marketing, commercial operations, commercial strategy, and corporate finance and business development. Prior to joining Arbor, Mr. Disbrow served in sales management with Cyberonics, Inc., a medical device company focused on central nervous system therapies from June 2005 through April 2007. Prior to joining Cyberonics, he was the Director of Marketing at LipoScience Inc., an in vitro diagnostics company. Mr. Disbrow began his career in sales. Mr. Disbrow holds an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University School of Business and BS in Management from North Carolina State University. Mr. Disbrow’s experience in executive management and commercialization within the pharmaceutical industry, monetizing company opportunities, and corporate finance led to the conclusion that he should serve as a member of our Board of Directors.
Josh Disbrow
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Disbrow has been employed by us since April 16, 2015, and a member of our Board of Directors since January 2016. Prior to the closing of the merger between Luoxis Diagnostics, Inc. (“Luoxis”) and Vyrix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. that formed Aytu, Mr. Disbrow was the Chief Executive Officer of Luoxis since January 2013. Mr. Disbrow jointly served as the Chief Operating Officer of Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Ampio”), a public biotechnology company, from December 2012 until April 2015. Prior to joining Ampio, he served as the Vice President of Commercial Operations at Arbor Pharmaceuticals, LLC (“Arbor”), a private specialty pharmaceutical company, from May 2007 through October 2012. He joined Arbor as the company’s second full-time employee and led the company’s commercial efforts from inception to the company’s acquisition in 2010 and growth to over $250 million in net sales in 2012. By the time Mr. Disbrow departed Arbor in late 2012, he had led the growth of the commercial organization that included a nationwide sales force, marketing, sales training, managed care, national accounts, distribution and other commercial functions. Mr. Disbrow has spent 27 years in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device industries and has held positions of increasing responsibility in sales, sales management, marketing, commercial operations, commercial strategy, and corporate finance and business development. Prior to joining Arbor, Mr. Disbrow served in sales management with Cyberonics, Inc., a medical device company focused on central nervous system therapies from June 2005 through April 2007. Prior to joining Cyberonics, he was the Director of Marketing at LipoScience Inc., an in vitro diagnostics company. Mr. Disbrow began his career in sales. Mr. Disbrow holds an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University School of Business and BS in Management from North Carolina State University. Mr. Disbrow’s experience in executive management and commercialization within the pharmaceutical industry, monetizing company opportunities, and corporate finance led to the conclusion that he should serve as a member of our Board of Directors.
Ryan Selhorn
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Selhorn has served as our Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary and Treasurer since November 2024. Mr. Selhorn previously served as Aytu’s Executive Vice President, Finance and Business Optimization since November 2022. Prior to this, Mr. Selhorn was Aytu’s Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations, Consumer Healthcare Division from February 2022 to November 2022 and as Vice President, Finance, Consumer Healthcare Division from February 2020 to February 2022. Mr. Selhorn served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from April 2018 at Innovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly held consumer healthcare company, until Aytu’s acquisition of Innovus in February 2020. From August 2013 to April 2018, Mr. Selhorn served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of Signature Analytics, a privately held fractional Chief Financial Officer and accounting firm, where he also served as Chief Financial Officer of Medicinova, Inc., a publicly held biotechnology company. Mr. Selhorn worked at Grant Thornton LLP, a public accounting firm, from October 2003 to July 2013, most recently in the role of Senior Manager, Transaction Advisory Services. Mr. Selhorn received his B.S./B.A., Accounting and Finance from Georgetown University and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).
Jarrett Disbrow
Chief Business Officer
Mr. Disbrow has served as our Chief Business Officer since November 2022. Until July 2024, he also held the position of President, Consumer Health. Prior to these roles, Mr. Disbrow served as our Executive Vice President, Corporate Operations from April 2021 to November 2022; Executive Vice President, Corporate Development from April 2020 to April 2021; our Executive Vice President, Marketing and Market Access from November 2019 to April 2020; our Chief Operating Officer and Head of Commercial from July 2019 to November 2019; and our Chief Operating Officer from April 2015 to July 2019. Prior to co-founding Aytu BioPharma in April 2015, Mr. Disbrow was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Vyrix Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on male sexual dysfunction. Mr. Disbrow’s first pharmaceutical start-up was Arbor Pharmaceuticals, LLC (“Arbor”), a privately held company focused initially on pediatrics. As the original founder of Arbor, Mr. Disbrow was responsible for the vision, fundraising, start-up, strategy and growth of the company until its acquisition by a private investor group in 2010. Mr. Disbrow also held various sales and marketing positions with Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly held biopharmaceutical company, and GlaxoSmithKline, a publicly held pharmaceutical company. Mr. Disbrow received a B.S. in Business Management from North Carolina State University and a M.S. in Organizational Leadership from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Suzane Kennedy
Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
Suzane Kennedy is an experienced Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance leader in the life sciences industry. She has worked over 20 years across pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, and medical devices. Most recently and prior to joining Aytu BioPharma in June 2018, Suzane was the Director of Quality Assurance with a start-up bioscience company, Armis Biopharma that focused on a combination product coming to market. Suzane started her career as a Quality Control Chemist at Upsher-Smith Laboratories and was promoted quickly into a management role. In order to continue her growth in the life science’s field Suzane moved into the medical device regulatory, including roles with ConMed Corporation and Cochlear Americas. She received a B.S. in Chemistry at Metro State University in Denver, Colorado.
Vivian Liu
Director, Compensation Committee Chair
Ms. Liu joined our Board of Directors in July 2022. Ms. Liu currently serves as Head of Corporate Affairs for PREMIA Holdings (HK) Limited (“PREMIA”), a developer of clinical-genomic oncology databases and service provider to pharmaceutical companies seeking to operate clinical trials throughout Asia. Prior to joining PREMIA, Ms. Liu served in various roles, including as a member of Board of Directors and President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Innovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Innovus”), a publicly listed consumer healthcare company acquired by Aytu in February 2020. Prior to Innovus, she served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of FasTrack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From 2017 to 2018, she served as the Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Cesca Therapeutics, Inc. Previously, Ms. Liu served as Managing Director of OxOnc Services Company, an oncology development company, and prior to that, Ms. Liu co-founded and served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and board director of NexMed, Inc., a drug development company which was later renamed Apricus BioSciences. Prior to her appointment as President of NexMed, Inc., Ms. Liu served in several executive capacities, including as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Corporate Affairs. Ms. Liu has an M.P.A. from the University of Southern California and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Liu’s experience in executive management within the pharmaceutical industry, as a director of a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company and in corporate finance led to the conclusion that she should serve as a member of our Board of Directors.
Abhinav “Abi” Jain
Independent Director
Mr. Jain joined our Board of Directors in June 2023. Since July 2019, Mr. Jain has served as an Analyst at Nantahala Capital Management, LLC (“Nantahala”) and is focused on investments in various sectors, including specialty and generic pharmaceuticals. From 2015 to 2017, Mr. Jain was an Associate at Angelo, Gordon & Co., an alternative asset manager. At Angelo, Gordon & Co., Mr. Jain focused on private equity and structured credit investments. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 with an S.B. in Chemical-Biological Engineering and from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 with an M.B.A. with honors in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management. Mr. Jain’s financial expertise and experience led to the conclusion that he should serve as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Jain was appointed pursuant to a board designation right granted to Nantahala to appoint one director to our Board of Directors, pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement dated June 8, 2023, with Nantahala and other investors.
Carl Dockery
Director, Nominating & Governance Committee Chair
Mr. Dockery joined our Board of Directors in April 2016. Mr. Dockery is a financial executive with over 30 years of experience as an executive in the insurance and reinsurance industry and more recently since 2006 as the founder and president of a registered investment advisory firm, Alpha Advisors, LLC. Mr. Dockery’s career as an insurance executive began in 1988 as an officer and director of two related and closely held insurance companies, including serving as Secretary of Crossroads Insurance Co. Ltd. of Bermuda and as Vice President of Gulf Insurance Co. Ltd. of Grand Cayman. Familiar with the London reinsurance market, in the 1990s, Mr. Dockery worked at Lloyd’s and the London Underwriting Centre brokering various types of reinsurance placements. From September 2014 through September 2019, Mr. Dockery served as a director of CytoDyn Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company focused on the development and potential commercialization of humanized monoclonal antibodies for the treatment and prevention of HIV and cancers. Mr. Dockery graduated from Southeastern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities. Mr. Dockery’s financial expertise and experience, as well as his experience as a director of a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company led to the conclusion that he should serve as a member of our Board of Directors.
John Donofrio, Jr.
Chairman, Audit Committee Chair
Mr. Donofrio joined our Board of Directors in July 2016 and was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors in November 2024. He is a senior pharmaceutical executive with over 30 years of experience in the industry across a broad range of areas, including President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer positions. Mr. Donofrio has significant finance experience in consolidated financial reporting, international accounting and internal controls, financial systems development and implementation, cost accounting, inventory management, supply chain, transfer pricing, budget and forecast planning, integration of mergers and acquisitions and business development. Mr. Donofrio is the founder of Riverside Consulting LLC, an advisory firm providing strategic and financial advisory services to life sciences companies. Prior to founding Riverside Consulting LLC, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Novan Inc., a specialty dermatology company and was President of Novan Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary EPI Health. From March 2019 until its acquisition by Novan, Inc. in March 2022, Mr. Donofrio served as EPI Health’s President. Mr. Donofrio previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development at TrialCard (now Mercalis) from March 2018 to March 2019. Mercalis is a technology-driven pharmaceutical services company providing patient access and support programs to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Prior to joining Mercalis, Mr. Donofrio was the Chief Financial Officer and Head of North American Business Development for Merz North America (“Merz”) from August 2013 to March 2018. Merz is a specialty healthcare company that develops and commercializes innovative treatment solutions in aesthetics, dermatology and neurosciences in the United States and Canada. At Merz, Mr. Donofrio was accountable for financial performance, cost management, business development and strategic business planning and analysis for the finance organization in North America. Prior to joining Merz, Mr. Donofrio served as Vice President, Stiefel Global Finance, U.S. Specialty Business and Puerto Rico, a GlaxoSmithKline plc company from July 2009 to July 2013. In that role, Mr. Donofrio was responsible for the financial strategy, management reporting, and overall control framework for the Global Dermatology Business Unit. Mr. Donofrio also served as a director of Vyrix Pharmaceuticals from February 2014 to April 2015. Mr. Donofrio holds a degree in Accounting from North Carolina State University. Mr. Donofrio’s broad executive leadership experience and financial expertise along with experience in the pharmaceutical industry led to the conclusion that he should serve as a member of our Board of Directors.
Greg Pyszczymuka
Chief Commercial Officer
Mr. Pyszczymuka has served as our Chief Commercial Officer since January 2022. Prior to joining the Company at the closing of the Company’s merger with Neos Therapeutics, Inc. (“Neos”) in March 2021, Mr. Pyszczymuka served as Vice President, Commercial at Neos since June 2020. He previously served as Vice President, Commercial Strategy & Market Access at Neos from November 2018 to June 2020, and as Executive Director of Channel Strategy & Access Programs. Mr. Pyszczymuka has served in commercial roles of increasing responsibility over a 20-year career including sales, marketing, distribution/channel strategy, commercial operations, managed markets and new product planning. Prior to joining Neos, Mr. Pyszczymuka was with Aqua Pharmaceuticals (an Almirall company), Iroko Pharmaceuticals, Zogenix and Endo Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Pyszczymuka currently serves on the board of directors for Evoke Pharma, Inc., a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company focused on treatments for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders with an emphasis on diabetic gastroparesis. He holds a B.S. from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. from Argosy University.
Margaret Cabano
Vice President of Operations
Margaret Cabano has served as the Vice President of Operations for Aytu BioPharma since the merger of Aytu BioPharma and Neos Therapeutics in 2021. Ms. Cabano held the same role for Neos Therapeutics since 2005. She has 21 years of industry experience and leads all aspects of manufacturing operations, including supply chain, engineering, and technical services. Prior to joining Neos, Ms. Cabano worked in operations and supply chain management for Adams Respiratory Therapeutics and Cardinal Health. Ms. Cabano holds an M.B.A. in Operations Management Science and a B.A. in Supply Chain Logistics from the University of North Texas.
