
Prashant Kohli
Chief Executive Officer
Prashant Kohli has over 20 years of commercialization experience leading strategy, sales, marketing, and product management. Most recently, Mr. Kohli was VP, Commercial Operations of Grace Therapeutics, prior to its acquisition by Acasti in August 2021. He has expertise crafting go-to-market plans for products with unique value proposition that address critical unmet needs. He has built, deployed, and led sales and marketing from the ground-up with significant experience in organization design, recruiting, performance management, incentive compensation, and P&L accountability. He has successfully implemented evidence-based, consultative-selling model that is rooted in deep understanding of the health ecosystem including patients, providers, health systems, government, and payers. He has also designed strategic marketing plans that generate leads and increase share-of-voice, augmenting the salesforce with digital tactics that increase reach and frequency. He has extensive commercial experience with specialty and small molecule drugs including in rare and orphan diseases. Prashant has worked at Archi-Tech Systems, Cardinal Health, IMS Health, Rosenbluth, and Dun & Bradstreet. He has a BA in Computer Science and Math, and an MBA from The Wharton School.

Brian D. Ford, CPA-CA
Interim Chief Financial Officer
Brian D. Ford brings over three decades of financial, project management and M&A experience within the healthcare and financial industries. Mr. Ford is an accomplished CPA-CA having served both publicly traded as well as privately owned organizations. Mr. Ford has been responsible for developing business recovery strategies, negotiating M&A transactions, as well as managing quarterly and yearly accounting reports. Most recently, Mr. Ford served as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Business Advisor at a private group of Ontario based medical clinics, including the largest chronic pain management practice in Canada. During his position as CFO and Senior Business Advisor, Mr. Ford significantly improved the Company’s performance and was instrumental in preparing the Company for its Initial Public Offering. Prior to that, Mr. Ford served as Chief Financial Officer at Telesta Therapeutics. At Telesta Therapeutics, Mr. Ford helped develop a new business plan and was heavily involved in all capital transactions. Previously, Mr. Ford started his own consulting firm, Petersford Consulting, where he provided clients with finance and business risk services. Mr. Ford began his career at Ernst & Young, working his way to Principal, Business Risk Services, developing essential business plans that evaluated revenue and cost profiles supporting budget planning and understanding drivers of growth, specifically with healthcare companies. Additionally, at Ernst & Young, Mr. Ford participated in and often led teams in due diligence assignments in relation to mergers and acquisitions or the sale of a business, having extensive experience in developing financial forecasts, product and market valuation, and audits of critical accounting and processes. Mr. Ford holds a B.A. in Economics, History, and English from the University of Guelph and has a Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of McGill. Mr. Ford is a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Dr. R. Loch Macdonald, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. R. Loch Macdonald is a scientist, researcher and neurosurgeon and a recognized expert on brain hemorrhage, including subarachnoid hemorrhage and delayed cerebral ischemia. For the past 25 years, his research interest has focused on improving patient outcome after brain hemorrhage, with a specific focus on developing a cure for cerebral vasospasm and DCI. Dr. Macdonald was the former Head, Division of Neurosurgery, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto and Chief Scientific Officer of Edge Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Macdonald has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and authored multiple textbooks, including one of the definitive textbooks on cerebral vasospasm. His publications have been cited thousands of times and he has spoken at many national and international conferences on the topic of subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral vasospasm and delayed cerebral ischemia. Prior to St. Michael’s Hospital, he was Professor of Surgery and Radiation & Cellular Oncology at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dr. Macdonald completed medical school at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and completed his Ph.D. in Experimental Surgery at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He completed his Neurosurgery residency at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is currently a neurosurgeon, medical director of neurovascular surgery and of research at Community Neurosciences Institute, Community Health Partners in Fresno, California.

Carrie D'Andrea
VP Clinical Operations
Carrie D'Andrea is a clinical operations executive with over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Carrie began her career as a Clinical Research Associate and was the Vice President of Clinical Operations for several small companies, including Edge Therapeutics and Erydel. Carrie is a hands-on leader with extensive experience in clinical strategic planning, global clinical trial management and quality oversight. She received her master's degree in Pharmaceutical Quality and Regulatory Affairs from Temple University and was also named a Healthcare Businesswomen's Associate Rising Star in 2009. Carrie also teaches Clinical Trial Design and Operations at Rutgers University in the Master of Business and Science program.

Amresh Kumar, PhD
VP Program Management
Amresh has over 20 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience leading drug development, CMC, and program management activities supporting the investigational and marketed products for rare diseases and neurology. Prior to joining Acasti, he held the position of Senior director of program management with Foresee Pharma, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company. He previously served as program leader at Grace Therapeutics, Senior Manager R&D at Sun Pharmaceuticals and various product development positions at Revogenex Inc, Colorcon and Alembic Limited. Amresh received a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science from Sunrise University, India, focusing on complex injectable drug delivery systems of highly insoluble oncology drugs. He has published many research articles and has more than 10 granted patents and many patent applications worldwide to his credit.