Jack Weinstein serves as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. He brings over 40 years of executive management expertise in investment banking and consulting in the biopharmaceutical and life sciences industries. Jack has extensive experience in corporate finance, business development as well as FDA regulatory and intellectual property strategies.

Chris Stijnen serves as Chief Commercial Officer. He is a highly experienced pharmaceutical executive with a successful track record in marketing, general management, access strategy and product development across a variety of indications.

Paolo Galfetti is President of Relief Europe. He has over 20 years of management experience in the pharmaceutical sector, including in the areas of business development and licensing, operational strategic management, clinical research, and pharmaceutical discovery and development. 

Jeremy Meinen, VP Finance and Administration, serves as principal finance and accounting officer. Prior to joining Relief, Jeremy provided financial consulting and controlling services to companies in various industries. Jeremy is a Swiss certified public accountant.

Gilles Della Corte, M.D., is Chief Medical Officer and responsible for the clinical development of RLF-100™ in Europe as well as interactions with and submissions to regulatory authorities. He brings over 40 years of professional experience, including several senior positions in different big pharma/biotech companies, start-up companies and clinical research organizations (CROs).

Taneli Jouhikainen, M.D., Ph.D., MBA serves as Relief’s COO. He has over 25 years of life sciences experience, with strong expertise in pharmaceutical industry leadership and product commercialization.

Jan-Jaap Scherpbier of Sonsbeek Pharma Consultancy B.V. serves as Manufacturing and Supply Chain Consultant to Relief. He is a highly experienced pharmaceutical consultant with more than 25 years of expertise in the areas of regulatory affairs, life cycle management, pharmaceutical development and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

J. Paul Waymack, M.D., Sc.D. serves as Development and Regulatory Consultant for Relief. He has an extensive track record in the pharmaceutical drug development arena and currently serves as President of Waymack Consulting, which provides expert services to healthcare companies.

Raghuram (Ram) Selvaraju, Ph.D., MBA, is a Managing Director and Senior Healthcare Analyst in the Equity Research Division of H.C. Wainwright & Co., a New York-based full-service investment bank heavily focused on the healthcare sector. He has over 15 years of experience on Wall Street and previously was a pharmaceutical researcher at Serono in Switzerland. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Geneva and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Paolo Galfetti is the CEO of APR Applied Pharma Research S.A. He has over twenty years of management experience in the pharmaceutical sector, including in the areas of business development and licensing, operational strategic management, clinical research, and pharmaceutical discovery and development. 

Patrice Jean is the Chair of the Life Sciences Practice at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, an international law firm based in New York City. She has over a decade of experience counselling leading and startup pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology companies in all areas of patent law, including asserting and defending patent rights underlying core technologies and innovations.

Tom Plitz is Chief Executive Officer of Chord Therapeutics SA, a privately held biopharmaceutical firm based in Geneva, Switzerland, and has more than two decades of R&D experience from senior management positions in the pharmaceutical industry.