About Inventprise
Inventprise is leveraging its innovative platform technology to develop vaccines against infectious diseases with an initial focus on invasive pneumococcal disease.
About Inventprise
Inventprise platform technologies are designed to enable high valent vaccines to induce broad, robust, and durable protection against pathogenic strains of infectious diseases.
In addition to its lead candidate, the 25-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Inventprise has a robust pipeline of investigational vaccines including candidates to prevent group B streptococcus (GBS), Shigella and Klebsiella.
Inventprise was founded by Subhash Kapre, PhD in 2012 to advance novel, highly impactful vaccines using proprietary technology, with the initial goal of providing lifesaving interventions globally.

Our mission is to empower people to live healthy lives by inventing better vaccines.

We leverage the best of vaccine technology, science, and manufacturing to prevent infectious disease
Our Focus is On Science
Together with our community of collaborators, Inventprise engages in cutting-edge research bringing incisive scientific insights and novel products to global populations in need of important, life-saving vaccines.
Our efforts have led to over fifty patents, many on proprietary approaches and methods in the development of highly immunogenic vaccines.
With multiple partners and collaborations, and a large portfolio of vaccine candidates, our aim is to remain true to our science, continue to innovate and deliver better vaccines to the world.
Executive Leadership

Subhash Kapre, PhD
Founder & Executive Chairman
Subhash Kapre, PhD, is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Inventprise. His passion for improving lives through the elimination of infectious diseases began more than five decades ago, and remains stronger than ever today. Holding 70 patents, Dr. Kapre is considered a thought leader in vaccine technology and an internationally renowned expert in both bacterial and viral vaccines. He has been instrumental in driving multiple vaccines from discovery to licensure, including MenAfriVac®. Dr. Kapre’s expertise spans not only vaccine discovery and R&D, but also manufacturing.
Prior to coming to the U.S., Dr. Kapre had an impressive 40-year career at the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer. He served in multiple senior executive roles, including Board Executive Director. After moving to the U.S., Dr. Kapre discovered he still had a passion for protecting those most in need, and after serving as a consultant for other companies, he decided to create Inventprise in 2012. Under his leadership, Inventprise has grown from two to more than 200 employees, has four facilities, and has state-of-the-art large-scale manufacturing capabilities to achieve its vision of safeguarding lives worldwide.
Subhash Kapre, PhD
Founder & Executive Chairman

Yves Leurquin, Eng., MS
President & CEO
Yves Leurquin leads Inventprise with a focus on partnerships, capital formation and structural growth. Before joining Inventprise, Yves Leurquin was Global Head of Pricing and Tender Management for Takeda’s Vaccine Business Unit. He joined the newly created Takeda Vaccine Business Unit at its inception where he led the Asia Pacific Region and then the European Region. Yves also held corporate board positions, at Takeda Vaccine Internationals. Additionally, Yves prior experience included EVP International and Government Affairs at Johnson & Johnson (Crucell) with oversight of relations with the United Nations organizations as well as business responsibility for Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Asia where he led a multi-functional team of marketing, sales and government affairs professionals generating two third of the group’s vaccine revenue. While at J&J Yves Leurquin organized the development and international launch of the first liquid Penta vaccine, winning supply contracts with UNICEF and PAHO and rapidly achieving a dominant market share. Prior to joining Johnson &Johnson, Yves was with the vaccine division of GlaxoSmithKline, holding progressively responsible positions over a 10-year tenure.
Yves Leurquin, Eng., MS
President & CEO

Pradip Ghate, MS, DMM
Chief Operating Officer
Pradip Ghate is an industry expert in large-scale vaccine and injectables manufacturing. With nearly four decades of global experience, he is adept at overseeing all aspects of development, production, and operations. He started his distinguished career at the Serum Institute of India, where the company grew by 10X during his tenure, and today remains one of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturers. After moving to North America in 1999, Pradip has served in a variety of positions—from Fortune 500 companies to biotech startups—including Hemosol, Cardinal Health, Catalent, and most recently, Inventprise. As Chief Operating Officer, Pradip oversees the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the business. He also facilitated the build-out of the company’s best-in-class large-scale manufacturing facility, which recently opened in Woodinville, WA. As a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, operational excellence is at the center of everything he does, and his vision has been a driving force in the steady growth of Inventprise.
Pradip Ghate, MS, DMM
COO

Sybil Tasker MD, MPH, FIDSA Chief Medical Officer
Sybil Tasker is Chief Medical Officer at Inventprise Inc. and is an infectious disease physician with over 30 years experience in clinical practice, global public health and vaccine and antimicrobial clinical development. She has had 2 prior biotech CMO positions, most recently at Codagenix, where she brought multiple live attenuated virus vaccines into the clinic. While in her previous position at Altimmune, she led clinical, regulatory and quality for 3 vaccine programs during which time the company became publicly listed through reverse merger. A prior career US Navy medical officer, Sybil was head of infectious diseases at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda MD and served as DOD regional director for PEPFAR funded programs in Africa. Her initial position in industry was for a global contract research organization, planning execution of Phase 1-4 clinical studies for antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines for a wide variety of pharma and biotech clients. Sybil holds a California medical license and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and Infectious Diseases Society of America, and is a diplomate. She earned AB degree in Biochemistry from Princeton University, an MD from Columbia University and MPH from Johns Hopkins University.Sybil Tasker, MD, MPH, FIDSA
CMO

Jeff Wilson Chief Financial Officer
Jeff Wilson is the Inventprise Chief Financial Officer. He originally joined the company in June 2023 to successfully lead our Partnership and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) efforts. In October 2024, he assumed the role of CFO, and will be leading the ongoing efforts to develop and grow our business worldwide. Jeff brings a wealth of global financial leadership experience, having previously served in CFO roles at Command Center, Acumatica, and Microvision. He also has deep experience in biotech diagnostics, devices, and services, leading all aspects of strategic planning, Finance and Accounting, and Investor Relations at TwinStrand Biosciences and Quorum Review.Jeff Wilson
CFO

Rachael Moss, MBA, SPHR Chief People Officer
Rachael is a Chief People Officer at Inventprise Inc. and is a human resources leader with over 20 years of experience across multiple domains and industries. Rachael has held leadership roles in multiple companies, most recently at Commerce fabric Inc. where she was Vice President of Talent, responsible for leading several people transformational efforts to help support the company’s rapid growth. Before Commerce fabric, she held various human resources roles at Liberty Mutual, Equinix, T-Mobile, Amazon and Ernst & Young. Rachael holds a BA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management and an SPHR certification. She also proudly serves as a board member of the Friends of the Seattle Public Library, a non-for-profit organization dedicated to elevating the library’s outreach while inspiring the love of reading in Seattle’s communities.Rachael Moss, MBA,SPHR
CPO
Management Team

Indah Andi-Lolo, MSc. PMP
VP of Portfolio Management
Indah Andi-Lolo is the Vice President of Portfolio Management at Inventprise. She brings over 15 years of experience in leading and managing complex vaccine development programs across clinical, regulatory, and manufacturing space within the pharmaceutical industries and nonprofit organizations.
Prior to joining Inventprise, Indah led vaccine development project teams at PATH working on a portfolio of projects funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Her industry background included serving as the Global Program Manager at Novartis Vaccines (now GSK) in Siena (Italy) and in Singapore, before taking on the responsibility as the Director of Project Management and Planning at Takeda Vaccines Singapore.
Indah holds post graduate degrees in International Business and Biotechnology and is a certified Project Management Professional.
Indah Andi-Lolo, MSc. PMP
VP of Portfolio Management

Anup Datta, PhD
VP of Bacterial Vaccines
Dr. Anup Datta is an accomplished professional with 20 years of comprehensive experience in bacterial and protein – sub-unit vaccines, development and technology transfer from concept to clinical thru licensure and commercial manufacturing. Anup is recognized as an industry leader in conjugate vaccine development, and played a pivotal leadership role, as a co-inventor and developer of several conjugate vaccines. His broad experience comprises of process & analytical chemistry, biochemistry, including bioconjugation, quality and CMC regulatory. He holds a PhD in the field of polysaccharide conjugate vaccine and has also worked on several NIH/USA funded projects as principal/co-investigator. Anup has experience working at various senior management level position in the US as well as India, having worked in several premier WHO pre-qualified vaccine development and manufacturing companies.
Anup Datta, PhD
VP of Bacterial Vaccines

Manoj Kumar, PhD
VP of Manufacturing Science & Technology
Dr. Manoj Kumar is a proven leader in vaccine industry with more than 20 years of academic and industry experience in field of microbiology, vaccinology, and epidemiology. Dr. Kumar has extensive experience in early to late-stage vaccine R&D programs, including technology transfer of projects along the continuum from academic labs to industry research labs, to development labs, and on to manufacturing and quality control lab settings.
Prior to joining Inventprise, he served in leadership positions in various vaccine R&D and manufacturing organizations in India namely, Chief Scientific Officer of Hester Biosciences Ltd., Ahmedabad; Associate Vice President-R&D at Biological E Ltd., Hyderabad; Senior Director-R&D at MSD Welcome Trust Hilleman Labs, New Delhi, and Head of Immunobiology and Molecular Research Lab at Serum Institute of India Research Foundation, Pune.
Dr. Kumar holds a Ph.D. in Veterinary Bacteriology and an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration. He has 18 patent applications, 15 peer reviewed publications, 2 book chapters and 3 whole genome sequences in his name. He has presented in more than 40 scientific conferences and has reviewed for 14 scientific journals. He has received more than 20 national and international awards and honors.
Manoj Kumar, PhD
VP of Manufacturing Science & Technology

Ivan Olave, PhD
VP of Viral Vaccines
Dr. Ivan Olave has more than 20 years of experience as biochemist with thorough understanding of vaccine development, small drug development, target selection and validation, pre-clinical studies, protein biochemistry and gene regulation. He is skillful in management of projects and personnel, and technology assessment and licensing. Ivan received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and did post-doctoral work at Stanford University in California.
Ivan Olave, PhD
VP of Viral Vaccines

Dawn Speidel
VP of Quality & Validation
Dawn Speidel is proven a Quality Assurance leader with a long, successful track record in both the medical and pharmaceutical industries. During her eight years of service with the U.S. Army, she served as a combat medic nurse. Soon after that, she became interested in Virology, and took on roles with leading pharmaceutical companies, including Merck and Astra Zeneca. As Dawn’s career progressed, she expanded her scope into Vaccine Manufacturing, Documentation, and Quality Assurance, and helped build the Quality team from the ground up while at Latham BioPharm Group. Her extensive expertise in developing and implementing Quality Management Systems (QMS) and ensuring compliance with global standards such as FDA, MHRA, ICH, WHO, and ISO will ensure that Inventprise achieves the highest standards in the manufacture of its vaccines.
Dawn also shares her expertise to teach others about Quality Assurance Management with a focus on Six Sigma as an Adjunct Professor at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD.
Dawn Speidel
VP of Quality & Validation

Olivier Brun
Senior Director of Global Access Strategies
Olivier Brun is passionate about patient health, and has focused on vaccines to address infectious disease throughout his career. Over the past 20 years, he has gained deep experience in the commercialization of various pharmaceutical assets from the pre-clinical stage through global launch. Originally starting off in the medical device industry, Olivier soon gravitated toward working in the vaccine Biotech industry for companies including Crucell, Berna Biotech, and Johnson & Johnson. During his 15 years at J&J, he served in a variety of global Marketing roles, where he successfully led Global Market Access Strategies for a variety of vaccines, such as Influenza, RSV, HPV and IPV. In addition, he has deep experience working closely with supra-national organizations, including UNICEF and WHO, as demonstrated by his work to ensure Crucell’s pentavalent pediatric vaccine (DTwP-HepB-Hib) was widely accessible to low-and-middle-income countries.
Based in Switzerland, Olivier also serves as the General Manager of Inventprise Switzerland GmbH, which was established in 2025 as the company’s European base. In addition to expanding Inventprise globally, he is focused on engaging with key stakeholders such as GAVI, UNICEF, EMA and WHO. He holds a Master’s degree in International Marketing from the International Business School, Zurich and a certification in Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia from Harvard Medical School.
Olivier Brun
Senior Director of Global Access Strategies

Raymond Bevers
Director of Manufacturing
Raymond Bevers is responsible for Manufacturing Operations following current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) standards. He also oversees long-term production scheduling and logistics. Raymond joins us from a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), with experience providing manufacturing services for protein-based biologics and advanced therapies. His responsibilities included mammalian, microbial, and adjuvant production lines. Raymond brings hands-on experience with both single use and stainless-steel technologies, new facility startup, and fill finish. He also has a successful track record of advancing clinical stage products to FDA approval.
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Raymond Bevers
Director of Manufacturing

Kapil Kapre
Director of Project Management & Automation
Kapil Kapre is responsible for Inventprise’s automation and long-term digital transformation strategy. Most recently, he has been hands-on with process equipment design, qualification, commissioning and verification activities for Inventprise’s commercial production facility. In the past at Inventprise, he has designed and built prototype pilot-scale automated equipment for processing bulk material. In addition, he has been the project manager for IT and digital initiatives at Inventprise
Kapil Kapre
Director of Project Management & Automation

David Steinberg
Director of Facilities & Engineering
David Steinberg
Director of Facilities & Engineering
Board of Directors
Subhash Kapre, PhD
Chairman & Founder
Inventprise’s Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board is Subhash Kapre, PhD. His experience encompasses multiple senior executive vice president positions at Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. (SIIPL), which measured by volume, is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer. During his four-decade tenure at SIIPL, Subhash held multiple functional leadership positions in R&D, manufacturing, and vaccine discovery.
Subhash is a thought leader in rDNA technology, an internationally renowned expert in both bacterial and viral vaccines and has led certification of WHO- Prequalification (regulatory approval) for large scale manufacturing. He held board positions at Akorn, and Serum Institute of India, where he was board, executive director.
Subhash has a history of driving multiple vaccines from discovery, into development and through licensure for infectious diseases, including MenAfriVac® and Pneumosil®, conjugate vaccines which together will represent over 500M aggregate doses delivered by 2022. Subhash holds over 70 patents and founded Inventprise in 2012 to continue his career long mission to provide vaccines for those most in need.
Niranjan Bose, PhD
Board Co-Chairman
Dr. Niranjan Bose is the Managing Director of Health & Life Sciences at Gates Ventures, where he serves as the Science Advisor to Mr. Bill Gates. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Bose was the Chief of Staff to the President of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he was with Strategic Decisions Group (and SDG Life Sciences), where he was a Senior Consultant and assisted clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries with strategy development, company valuations, portfolio management frameworks, revenue forecasting, and competitive assessments.
Ralf Clemens, MD, PhDBoard Director
Dr. Ralf Clemens has held executive positions in several leading multinational corporations such as GSK, Novartis Vaccines and Takeda, and has developed and brought to licensure more than 25 different vaccines globally. Dr. Clemens was a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) for two terms, a leading global vaccinology organization initiated by the United Nations Development Program, and a Member of the Selection Committee of Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund from Japan. He is currently an external Scientific Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Jenner Institute Oxford, UK as well as on SAB of various Biotech’s. He is the author of more than 200 publications and 250 presentations in the fields of vaccines, immunization, and tropical medicine.H. Stewart Parker, MBA
Board Director
Ms. Parker has served as a Principal at Parker BioConsulting, a biotechnology consulting firm, since January 2009. From March 2011 to June 2014, Ms. Parker served in various roles at the Infectious Disease Research Institute, a not-for-profit global health research institute, including as its Chief Executive Officer, strategic advisor, and a member of the board of directors. Prior to that, Ms. Parker has also served in various roles of leadership at biopharmaceutical companies since 1992, including as Chief Executive Officer of Targeted Genetics Corporation, a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company, which she founded. Since 2014, Ms. Parker has served on the board of directors of IMPEL Pharmaceuticals Inc., a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company and Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly-traded genomic therapies company. Ms. Parker also currently serves on the board of directors of various private companies. Previously, Ms. Parker served on the board of directors of Achieve Life Sciences, Inc., a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company, from August 2017 to May 2021, and Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (formerly C3J Therapeutics, Inc.), a publicly-traded biotechnology company, from May 2019 to December 2020. Ms. Parker obtained a B.A. in Slavic Language & Literature and an M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from the University of Washington.
Donna Ambrosino, MD
Board Director
Dr. Donna Ambrosino is a renowned scientific leader for vaccine development having previously served as Chief Executive Officer at Nosocomial Vaccine Corporation and the first Chief Executive Officer of MassBiologics, University of Massachusetts Medical School. At MassBiologics, Dr. Ambrosino invented and developed multiple monoclonal antibodies in infectious disease with two now being commercial products (Zinplava and Rabishield).
Dr. Ambrosino was also a Professor of Pediatrics at University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. At Harvard Medical School she was a National Institutes of Health-funded researcher.
She now serves on multiple Scientific Advisory Boards and Board of Directors as well as previously serving as Advisor to WHO, CEPI, and the Gates Foundation
Yves Leurquin, Eng, MS Board Director
Yves Leurquin leads Inventprise with a focus on partnerships, capital formation and structural growth. Before joining Inventprise, Yves Leurquin was Global Head of Pricing and Tender Management for Takeda’s Vaccine Business Unit. He joined the newly created Takeda Vaccine Business Unit at its inception where he led the Asia Pacific Region and then the European Region. Yves also held corporate board positions, at Takeda Vaccine Internationals. Additionally, Yves prior experience included EVP International and Government Affairs at Johnson & Johnson (Crucell) with oversight of relations with the United Nations organizations as well as business responsibility for Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Asia where he led a multi-functional team of marketing, sales and government affairs professionals generating two third of the group’s vaccine revenue. While at J&J Yves Leurquin organized the development and international launch of the first liquid Penta vaccine, winning supply contracts with UNICEF and PAHO and rapidly achieving a dominant market share. Prior to joining Johnson &Johnson, Yves was with the vaccine division of GlaxoSmithKline, holding progressively responsible positions over a 10-year tenureAndrew Farnum Board Director
Andrew Farnum is the CEO of Variant Bio, a company developing therapies by studying the genes of people with exceptional health-related traits. Variant has dozens of genomic research partnerships on six continents, working hand in hand with communities that have not previously participated in genomic research. Before Variant, Andrew was the Director of the Gates Foundation’s Strategic Investment Fund, where he led the foundation’s $2 billion investment program and chaired the foundation’s investment committee. Earlier, Andrew was an investor and investment banker at TPG and Goldman Sachs. Andrew has a master’s degree in international development from the Harvard Kennedy School and an AB in molecular biology from Princeton University.Scientific Advisory Board
Kaia Agarwal, M.Sc.
Scientific Advisor
Kaia Agarwal, Regulatory Affairs Professional Society Fellow (FRAPS), is a Strategic Global Regulatory Affairs Advisor. For over 37 years in the industry, Ms. Agrawal has helped teams implement global regulatory strategy to develop drugs and various forms of biologics in all major therapeutic areas and prepare for several agency meetings with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as national agency meetings in Europe and Asia, including in Japan. Ms. Agrawal is an expert in the development of vaccines, starting at the bench in R&D through to late-stage trials and licensure. Since becoming a consultant, she has assisted companies develop and license 13 cell and gene therapies, nine mRNA vaccines, and a COVID-19 vaccine. Ms. Agrawal was also formerly Vice President and Global Head, Regulatory Affairs with Novartis Vaccines; Divisional Vice President, Abbott Labs Ltd (now Abbvie); Vice President, Cardiovascular and Metabolism with Genzyme; Executive Director, CNS and Neuropharm, and Head, Adult Vaccines at GlaxoSmithKline. She holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Microbiology from the University of Toronto, Canada, and was accepted as a RAPs Fellow in 2017.
Donna Ambrosino, MD
Scientific Advisor
Dr. Donna Ambrosino is a renowned scientific leader for vaccine development having previously served as Chief Executive Officer at Nosocomial Vaccine Corporation and the first Chief Executive Officer of MassBiologics, University of Massachusetts Medical School. At MassBiologics, Dr. Ambrosino invented and developed multiple monoclonal antibodies in infectious disease with two now being commercial products (Zinplava and Rabishield).
Dr. Ambrosino was also a Professor of Pediatrics at University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. At Harvard Medical School she was a National Institutes of Health-funded researcher.
She now serves on multiple Scientific Advisory Boards and Board of Directors as well as previously serving as Advisor to WHO, CEPI, and the Gates Foundation
Astrid Borkowski, MD, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Astrid Borkowski, currently Chief Medical Officer at HilleVax. has more than 20 years of experience in vaccine development spanning all development phases, global filing, approval, and post marketing stages, as well as medical affairs for pre-and post-marketing activities. Dr. Borkowski’s most recent role was Vice President, Head of Clinical Development at the Takeda’s Vaccine Business Unit where she oversaw the clinical development of all vaccine assets, including HIL-214. Prior to joining Takeda, she was Chief Medical Officer responsible for the European Region and later led early viral and bacterial vaccine development at Novartis Vaccines. In her roles prior to Novartis Vaccines, she was responsible for the pandemic influenza vaccine clinical development at GSK and worked on meningococcal and seasonal influenza vaccine development during her time at Chiron Vaccines. Dr. Borkowski completed her medical degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, from which she also received her PhD in Immunology. She trained in internal medicine/rheumatology before completing her postdoctoral studies at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Peter Dull, MD Scientific Advisor
Peter is Deputy Director for Integrated Clinical Vaccine Development within the Global Health Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role he provides technical and strategic guidance on clinical development to the foundation’s program strategy teams and external partners. In addition, he leads the foundation’s vaccine development activities for HPV vaccines, including efforts on new product development and reduced dose schedules. He joined the foundation after 10 years at Novartis Vaccines where he was the Clinical Franchise Head for Meningitis and Sepsis Vaccines, leading the clinical development global licensure of MenACWY-CRM (Menveo) and 4CMenB (Bexsero). During the Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to providing direct support for grantees developing new COVID-19 vaccines, he co-led with CEPI partners the COVAX Clinical SWAT team providing product-agnostic support to developers to accelerate vaccine licensure and WHO pre-qualification with an LMIC focus. Prior to joining Novartis, he was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch at the US Centers for Disease Control and completed subspecialty training in infectious diseases at Emory University.Ralf Clemens, MD, PhD
SAB Chair
Dr. Ralf Clemens has held executive positions in several leading multinational corporations such as GSK, Novartis Vaccines and Takeda, and has developed and brought to licensure more than 25 different vaccines globally. Dr. Clemens is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), a leading global vaccinology organization initiated by the United Nations Development Program, a Member of the Selection Committee of Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund from Japan, and an external Scientific Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the author of more than 200 publications and 250 presentations in the fields of vaccines, immunization, and tropical medicine.
Subhash Kapre, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Inventprise’s Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board is Subhash Kapre, PhD. His experience encompasses multiple senior executive vice president positions at Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. (SIIPL), which measured by volume, is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer. During his four-decade tenure at SIIPL, Subhash held multiple functional leadership positions in R&D, manufacturing, and vaccine discovery.
Subhash is a thought leader in rDNA technology, an internationally renowned expert in both bacterial and viral vaccines and has led certification of WHO- Prequalification (regulatory approval) for large scale manufacturing. He held board positions at Akorn, and Serum Institute of India, where he was board, executive director.
Subhash has a history of driving multiple vaccines from discovery, into development and through licensure for infectious diseases, including MenAfriVac® and Pneumosil®, conjugate vaccines which together will represent over 500M aggregate doses delivered by 2022. Subhash holds over 70 patents and founded Inventprise in 2012 to continue his career long mission to provide vaccines for those most in need.
Maria Knoll, PhD Scientific Advisor
Maria Knoll is an expert in the fields of epidemiology, disease surveillance, vaccine trial conduct, and biostatistics. She currently serves as Associate Director of Science at the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Knoll has over 20 years of experience in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials and epidemiological studies and spent 13 years at the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. She also served as a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Department of Preventive Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, where she directed a course on clinical trial design, conduct and analysis in their MPH program, conducted cardiovascular and HIV-related epidemiological studies using data from established cohorts, and designed therapeutic clinical trials for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Dr. Knoll completed her undergraduate studies in biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.Jan Poolman, PhD
Scientific Advisor
Jan Poolman is former Head, Bacterial Vaccine Discovery and Early Development at Janssen Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Poolman led the bacterial vaccines team, which focuses on developing vaccines against the most prevalent antibiotics resistant bacteria, from 2011 till 2024. He also is a member of the Editorial Board for the expert review of articles for the journal Vaccines. From 1986 until 1996, Dr. Poolman was Head of Vaccines R&D at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands (RIVM) and later served at the Netherlands Vaccines Institute (NVI). In 1997, he moved to industry and was appointed Head & Vice-President Bacterial Vaccines R&D at GSK Biologicals in Belgium. During his tenure, he contributed to the licensure of several vaccines: DTPaHBIPVHib Infanrix-Hexa, DTPaHBIPV Pediarix, Tdap Boostrix, HibMenC-TT Menitorix, 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate Synflorix, HibMenCY-TT Menhibrix, and ACWY-TT Nimenrix. Dr. Poolman began his career at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) where he obtained a master’s degree in chemistry in 1975 and a PhD on Meningococcal Surface Structure in 1981. In 1982, he was awarded an NIH post-doctoral fellowship research position at the University of Washington in Seattle, US. Dr. Poolman has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals.