Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
Simon Williams, CEO, has over 20 years of experience in creating, organizing, developing, licensing, financing and managing new medical and chemical technologies from early stage research through to commercially viable products. Prior to Akeso Biomedical, Dr. Williams was the President of Tepha, Inc., where he formulated a product development
strategy for a new absorbable biomaterials technology that led to FDA regulatory clearance of 17 novel medical device products over 5 years. Products developed by Tepha included CR Bard’s Phasix™ hernia repair mesh, B. Braun Surgical’s MonoMax® absorbable sutures, Tornier’s Phantom Fiber™ for ligament and tendon repair, and Galatea’s GalaFLEX® mesh for plastic and reconstructive surgery. Dr. Williams is a cofounder of the bioscience company, Metabolix (NASDAQ: MBLX). Dr. Williams was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T., and completed a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Cambridge University, England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
