Anisha Wharton serves as Head of Regulatory Affairs at as Senior Vice President of Marketing at AVEO Oncology, an LG Chem company, and brings more than 16 years of global regulatory leadership to support the development, registration and life-cycle management of biologics and pharmaceutical products. Prior to joining AVEO in 2021, Ms. Wharton served as Director, Global Regulatory Affairs – Oncology at Merck & Co., Inc. where she served as the Global Regulatory Lead for early and late-stage clinical development programs for advanced metastatic tumors, women’s cancers, melanoma, and multiple myeloma. While at Merck, Ms. Wharton led a global regulatory team responsible for the approval of a new dosing regimen of KEYTRUDA® across all approved adult indications in over 35 countries. Prior to Merck, she served in global Regulatory Affairs roles of increasing complexity and responsibility at Nektar Therapeutics, InterMune, Inc. (acquired by Roche), InSite Vision, Inc. (acquired by Sun Pharma), and Genentech, Inc. She helped lead a cross functional team in the approval of ESBRIET® and AZASITE®, as well as the development of a global regulatory intelligence database.  Ms. Wharton earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Clark Atlanta University and her Master of Business Administration degree from the University of San Francisco School of Management.

Noelia Rycerz brings more than 17 years of global drug development experience to her role at as Senior Vice President of Marketing at AVEO Oncology, an LG Chem company. Ms. Rycerz has held roles of increasing seniority in Clinical Operations and Program Management at Amgen Inc., Pfizer Inc., and Odonate Therapeutics, Inc. She led and executed clinical phase 1 – 3 clinical trials in varying therapeutics areas including oncology, rheumatology and cardiovascular disease. During her time at Amgen Inc. as a Program Manager, she supported CMC, Regulatory and Safety Affairs to ensure delivery of marketing applications leading to approval of Corlanor®. While at Pfizer, Ms. Rycerz was accountable for oversight of pivotal clinical trials and support of regulatory inspections leading to marketing application approvals for Xeljanz®, Besponsa® and Daurismo®. Ms. Rycerz received a Bachelors of Science at Boston University. 

Manoj Patel has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, over 15 of which are directly in the development of oncologic treatments and joins AVEO Oncology, an LG Chem company, as Vice President of Program Management. Prior to joining AVEO’s management team, Dr. Patel led the development of several biologics programs as a Project Leader within Teva’s specialty pharma group. Prior to Teva, he held several senior level positions within Project and Program Management as well as Customer Solutions at PRA Health Sciences (now part of ICON) and IQVIA. During his tenure at these CROs, Dr. Patel oversaw the development of oncology treatments for several major pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Prior to IQVIA, he worked at GlaxoSmithKline for more than 10 years across multiple functions that included Clinical Development, Medical Affairs and Project Management. Dr. Patel was also Sr. Director of Program and Alliance Management at ImClone Systems and was involved in the process leading to the ultimate sale of the company to Eli Lilly. Dr. Patel received BS degrees in Chemistry and Pharmacy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Doctorate of Pharmacy from Campbell University.

Jason Noto brings over 20 years of broad commercial leadership experience to his role as Senior Vice President of Market Access at AVEO Oncology, an LG Chem company. Prior to joining AVEO, Jason served as Vice President at 1798 Consultants, a strategic market access consultancy specializing in integrated channel strategy, patient support services (HUB), payer contract development and assessment, financial impact analysis, and related Access functions. Earlier, Jason served as Senior Director of Market Access Strategy and Payer Marketing at Amag Pharmaceuticals, leading Payer marketing efforts across all business units totaling >$600M in revenue in 2019.

Prior to his tenure at Amag Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Noto held various launch, in-line, and multi-channel marketing leadership roles of increasing responsibility at Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Alkermes, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. During his career, Mr. Noto has had responsibility for the US commercial launch of various specialty products in oncology, immunology, CNS, & ultra-orphan disease states. Mr. Noto received a B.S. in Business Administration from Le Moyne College and an M.B.A. in finance from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

Mr. Ledell serves as Chief Operating Officer of AVEO Oncology, an LG Chem company. He joins AVEO from Enzyvant Therapeutics, a biotechnology company dedicated to developing novel, transformative regenerative therapies for people with devastating rare diseases, where he served as Chief Operating Officer and led key business operations during the recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of RETHYMIC^®. Prior to Enzyvant, Mr. Ledell served as the Chief Operating Officer at Compass Therapeutics and Horizon Discovery Group. He was responsible for leading operations at both organizations through several changes in scale. Prior to Horizon, he held multiple technology, operations and development roles at Zalicus Inc. Mr. Ledell holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Mr. Jeong serves as as Chief Financial Officer of AVEO Oncology, an LG Chem company. Mr. Jeong joins AVEO from its parent company, LG Chem, Ltd. (“LG Chem”), where he has served as a financial and accounting officer since 1999. During his time at LG Chem, Mr. Jeong has served as the financial director and controller for several entities where LG Chem invested in joint ventures and/or subsidiaries, the majority of them in Thailand. He has provided strategic financial counsel on the new entities’ successful stabilization, spearheaded the implementation of financial controls and systems, and overseen the expansion of the Finance/Accounting departments.

Mr. Jeong received his B.S. in Business Administration from Kyunghee University in South Korea.

Danielle Holland serves as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of AVEO Oncology, an LG Chem company. Prior to joining AVEO, Ms. Holland served as an Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where she advised public and private clients in a variety of industries in corporate and securities law matters, mergers and acquisitions, governance, corporate finance and other matters. Prior to her legal career, Ms. Holland taught elementary education in New York City through Teach For America. Ms. Holland received a B.A. in International Studies from Boston College and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.