Management Team / Advisory Board Bios
Michael Nelson, J.D.
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Mr. Nelson graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Biology and a concentration in Biochemistry and received his J.D. from New York University School of Law. He is a serial entrepreneur with a background in law, finance and management. Previously, he was an analyst at Barclays Capital and ING where he helped analyze and invest in numerous life science companies and manage portfolios of up to $2 billion, was a health care investment banker at CIBC World Markets and was head of health care at Westwood Capital and practiced law at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Dewey Ballantine. Mr. Nelson is currently CFO at Allovate Therapeutics, CFO at Immunovent, and a periodic advisor to Westwood Capital.
Anthony Robinson, M.S., CRNP, M.B.A.
Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder
Mr. Robinson received his BS from Cornell University, MS from MCP Hahnemann/Drexel University and MBA from The Pennsylvania State University. He is a serial entrepreneur and management consultant specializing in bringing drug discoveries to commercialization. Mr. Robinson’s background includes product development and commercial leadership at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Covance Inc. and Shire plc. In 2013 Mr. Robinson started Barclay Consulting, a management consulting company to life science and healthcare investment funds, startups and large private companies to which he provided market feasibility, product development plans, commercial scale-up activities and financing support to commercialize client discoveries. Mr. Robinson has been an advisor and angel investor to Allovate Therapeutics and Immunovent since 2013, and became chief operating officer for Intrommune Therapeutics in 2016.
Erick Berglund, Ph.D.
Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder
Dr. Berglund received his BS and MS from the University of N.H. and Boston University School of Medicine, respectively, then received his PhD in biochemistry from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. He initially worked as a researcher at Sanofi‐Aventis, then became a USPTO registered patent agent, going on to work in business development and strategy at Kyorin Pharmaceuticals, and then as CEO of Vaxiva Biosciences, a Tokyo-based vaccine company. He is currently the CEO of Allovate Therapeutics. Prior to launching Allovate Therapeutics, Dr. Berglund was a Medical Strategy Director at H4B Chelsea, a global healthcare communications consultancy in NYC.
William Reisacher, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. William Reisacher is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and Director of Allergy Services at Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC. He graduated from Cornell University and received his medical degree from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Reisacher is a fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy (AAOA), where he has also served on the Board of Directors. He has been a co-founder, inventor and senior advisor for several early-stage companies in the biotechnology and digital health-tech spaces.
Prof. Wesley Burks, M.D.
Clinical Advisory Board
Dr. A. Wesley Burks is Executive Dean for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, the Curnen Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, and Executive Director of the UNC Food Allergy Initiative. Dr. Burks joins the Intrommune Advisory Board with 30 years’ experience conducting and leading clinical research on clinical presentations of food allergy, the properties of foods contributing to allergenicity, and food allergy immunotherapy, including pioneering research on sublingual immunotherapy for peanut allergy
David Fleischer, M.D.
Clinical Advisory Board
Dr. David Fleischer is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Director of the Food Challenge Unit at Colorado Children’s Hospital, and board certified in both Allergy and Immunology and Pediatrics. He has led research sites for numerous multi-center studies, including NIH-NIAID funded CoFAR studies on peanut sublingual immunotherapy, egg oral immunotherapy, and the causes and progression of peanut allergies.
Matthew Greenhawt, M.D.
Clinical Advisory Board
Dr. Matthew Greenhawt is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He brings expertise in health services research, healthcare policy, and biostatistics. He has published over 50 articles on topics including the impact of food allergies on quality of life, vaccine safety, and food allergy healthcare policy, in addition to funded research into phenotypes in eosinophilic esophagitis and cost-effectiveness analysis.
Danya Glabau, Ph.D.
Medical Affairs Advisor
Dr. Glabau is a medical anthropologist specializing in the study of food allergy, health, and chronic disease. She holds a doctorate from Cornell University in Science and Technology Studies and has published numerous popular and social scientific articles about allergy, health care, and food. Dr. Glabau works with companies in the healthcare and technology industries as a research expert and advisor. She is also a Faculty member of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and an Adjunct Instructor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
