Management Team

President and Chief Executive Officer
Stanley C. Erck

Mr.Erck was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Novavax in April 2011. He became a Novavax Director in June 2009 and beginning in February 2010, served as its Executive Chairman of the Board. From 2000 to 2008, Mr. Erck was President and Chief Executive Officer of Iomai Corporation, leading the company through an initial public offering and a merger with Intercell, an Austrian vaccine company, and through the development of a late-stage infectious disease product candidate. Prior to Iomai, Mr. Erck served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Procept, a publicly traded immunology company; as Vice President, Corporate Development at Integrated Genetics (now Genzyme), and in management positions within Baxter International. Mr. Erck currently sits on the Board of Directors of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, MaxCyte, Inc. and the MdBio Foundation. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

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Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
Gregory M. Glenn, M.D.

Dr. Glenn is a pioneer in vaccine delivery and adjuvants, and has brought several products from concept into clinical development, such as the travelers' diarrhea vaccine patch and an adjuvant patch for a pandemic influenza vaccine, developed under U.S. government contracts. He provided the scientific and technical leadership that led to the acquisition of IOMAI by Intercell in 2008. He has co-authored more than 150 research publications, scientific abstracts and presentations, and successful grant applications, and holds multiple U.S., European and other international patents. In addition, he is an associate editor of the journals Expert Review of Vaccines, and Human Vaccine, and was a board-certified pediatrician. Dr. Glenn received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Chemistry from Whitman College and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Oral Roberts University School of Medicine. He also completed the Medical Research Fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

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Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and Process Development
Timothy J. Hahn, Ph.D.

Dr. Hahn joined Novavax as Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and Process Development in June 2011 with responsibility for process development, technology transfer, manufacturing, quality control testing, engineering, and facilities. Dr. Hahn has more than 19 years of commercial vaccine and antibody manufacturing experience and a proven track record of successful performance in clinical and commercial production, facility start-up, process innovation, technology transfer, and regulatory inspections. Prior to joining Novavax, Dr. Hahn was Vice President of Antibody Manufacturing and later Vice President of Vaccine Manufacturing at MedImmune, LLC, with responsibilities for both US and non-US manufacturing sites. Prior to MedImmune, Dr. Hahn spent more than 15 years in vaccine manufacturing with Merck & Co. He received his Doctorate and Master of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University.

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Senior Vice President, Business Development
Russell P. "Rip" Wilson

Mr. Wilson joined Novavax in November 2011 as Senior Vice President, Business Development. He is responsible for developing business alliances, license arrangements, and partnering opportunities with pharmaceutical companies and government agencies. Mr. Wilson was most recently the Chief Financial Officer at Supernus Pharmaceuticals. He was previously Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of Iomai Corporation, which was acquired in 2008 by Intercell AG, during which time he successfully negotiated a $128 million government contract with the Office of Biomedical Research and Development Authority (BARDA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Wilson was also the Acting General Counsel of North American Vaccine, Inc. until its acquisition by Baxter International in 2000. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his Master's in Business Administration and Juris Doctorate degrees from the University of Virginia.

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Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Amy B. Fix

Ms. Fix joined Novavax in April 2013 as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs with responsibility for regulatory strategy and our interactions with international regulatory agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, which oversee the development and commercialization of our vaccine product candidates. She was most recently Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs at Emergent Biosolutions after serving in regulatory-affairs positions of increasing responsibility at a number of pharmaceutical companies, including Human Genome Sciences, Shire, MedImmune and Baxter. Ms. Fix received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Virginia, and an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

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Vice President, Clinical and Medical Affairs
Louis F. Fries III, M.D.

Dr. Fries, who joined the Novavax team in 2011, has 22 years of experience in the clinical testing and development of human vaccines in academic, small biotech, and major biopharmaceutical environments. While a major career focus has been influenza, he has also had extensive involvement with bacterial and parasitic vaccines and therapeutic and prophylactic immunoglobulins. He has been an author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications. Most recently, following the acquisition of ID Biomedical by GSK Biologicals, Dr. Fries served as Director of Clinical Development from 2005 to 2011. He had previously served as Vice President of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs for Intellivax and ID Biomedical GSK Biologicals, which he had come to after 4 years as Director of Clinical Development for Univax and Nabi. Prior to joining the biotechnology industry, Dr. Fries served for 4 years as a faculty member in the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Fries received his undergraduate training at the Johns Hopkins University and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Duke University. He trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins and infectious disease at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease, where he was a member of the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation from 1979 to 1989.

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 Vice President, Manufacturing
Mervyn L. Hamer

Mr. Hamer joined Novavax in January 2012 as Vice President, Manufacturing, bringing with him more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology manufacturing industry. Prior to joining Novavax, he was Vice President of Supply Chain Management and Engineering at Intercell USA and Vice President of Operations at Iomai Corporation, its predecessor company. Before Iomai, Mr. Hamer had worked at both PATH and Alza Corporation, where he served as Technical Director and Director of Manufacturing, respectively. Mr. Hamer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
John A. Herrmann III, J.D.

Mr. Herrmann is responsible for managing all of Novavax's legal affairs, including its patent portfolio, various transactional matters, and public securities filings, as well as attending to all the duties of Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining Novavax, Mr. Herrmann was General Counsel and Secretary for Ore Pharmaceuticals and Deputy General Counsel to Gene Logic before it became Ore Pharmaceuticals. In addition, he has held senior level in-house counsel roles at Celera Genomics and Baxter Healthcare. Mr. Herrmann holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History from Brown University.

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Vice President, Process Development
Erica Shane, Ph.D.

Dr. Shane joined Novavax in November 2011 as Vice President, Process Development. She will have responsibility for all process development activities at Novavax. In addition she will provide oversight of process validation and technical support for manufacturing. Dr. Shane was most recently Senior Director of BioProcess Engineering at MedImmune. In this position, she was responsible for technology transfer to clinical and commercial sites as well as scale-up of cell culture and purification processes. Dr. Shane joined the purification department in 1994 and spent 12 years developing clinical and commercial purification processes. Her contributions were critical to the successful launch of Synagis®, a monoclonal antibody medication to help protect high-risk babies from severe RSV disease. In 2005, she assumed leadership of clinical manufacturing rising to the position of Senior Director in 2008. During the course of her tenure, Dr. Shane contributed to over 20 pipeline product programs. Prior to joining MedImmune, she held positions at DNX Corporation and American Cyanamid. Dr. Shane received her doctorate degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and her bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in chemical engineering.

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Vice President of Vaccine Development
Gale Smith, Ph.D.

Dr. Smith is a leader in vaccine technology and holds numerous patents for the baculovirus-insect cell expression system, influenza vaccines and adjuvants. At Novavax, Dr. Smith has developed the first known commercial, scalable process for the manufacture of virus-like particle vaccines for influenza. He also has collaborated with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in testing a virus-like particle vaccine to protect animals against the H9N2 influenza. Prior to joining Novavax, Dr. Smith led a team at Protein Sciences Corp. that developed the first experimental vaccine for HIV approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for testing in the United States. Dr. Smith also collaborated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institute of Health to produce the first experimental vaccine tested in man against the H5N1 avian influenza. Dr. Smith did graduate work at the Baylor College of Medicine and has a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Texas A&M University.

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