Advisory Board
Shailesh Patel MSc, BSc
Pharmaceutical manufacturing and QA specialist, Mumbai, India
Mr. Patel has 26 years of Quality Assurance and Quality Control experience, in the Pharmaceutical Industry and 15 at the Senior Management level. His expertise lies in tech validation, launching new projects, new software implementation and R&D- Developmental QA for various formulation types Oral Solid Dosage (OSD), Injectable, Ophthalmic and liquid formulations. He has extensive and successful experience of audits from a number of different health authorities such as United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), Health Canada, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Medicines Control Council (MCC), World Health Organization (WHO), Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA) to name a few.
He will bring to the table his expertise in building a manufacturing plant to meet the requirements of health authorities and quality assurance of the protocols and products developed at Akseera.
Peter Payne, PhD
President and CEO, CSSL Consulting Inc.
Dr. Payne has founded/co-founded eight companies in diverse sectors, from electronic publishing to medical devices. Those companies sold products in Canada, USA, Europe and Asia. He has been involved with government organizations, private and public companies, reverse take-overs, venture capital corporations and not-for-profit groups. Peter earned a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and was active with the Problem Based Learning program. He was a member of the UBC Faculty of Medicine and is currently on Faculty with Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. Peter has been an invited speaker at international conferences, holds a number of patents and has received several awards for academic and business activities. Peter often speaks about the application of the scientific method to innovation challenge.
Karan Virk
Karan is the co-founder of the start-up Elavopure and is currently involved in the procurement and sales of PPE products. He has extensive experience in international trade and has been consulting and trading in the health & wellness, food & beverage and cannabis space. Karan previously worked 10 years in a remote region of Siberia where he Co-led the establishment and operation of start-up sawmill and wood remanufacturing plant. In 2013 he joined Cocos Pure Beverage Corp, a coconut water beverage company, as the operations manager. He was key in assisting a buyout of Cocos by a cannabis company, at the same time helping raise over $500,000 investment for the new company.