Cord Blood Association Board of Directors

Officers

Joanne Kurtzberg, MD
President

Director, Carolinas Cord Blood Bank
Durham, NC

Colleen Delaney, MD, MSc
Vice President

Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Deverra Therapeutics
Seattle, WA

Beth H. Shaz, MD
Secretary

Deputy Director, 
Marcus Center for Cellular Cures
Durham, NC

Marcie Finney, MS, MBA
Treasurer

Executive Director
Cleveland Cord Blood Center
Cleveland, OH

Directors

Karen Ballen, MD

Division Chief, Hematology and Oncology, 
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, VA
2021-2023

Tomasz Baran, MD, MBA

Vice President
PBKM/FamiCord Group
Warsaw, Poland
2022-2024

Peter Bawin, MBA

Global Vice President, Commercial Life Sciences, CooperSurgical
Los Angeles, CA
2022-2025

Jonathan Carmichael, PhD

Director Laboratory Services, Viacord
Hebron, KY
2022-2023

Ngaire Elwood, PhD

Director, BMDI Cord Blood Bank
Melbourne, Australia
2022-2025

Gesine Koegler, PhD

HEAD GMP/Cellular Stem Cell Laboratory, Medical Center Heinrich Heine University
Dusseldorf, Germany
2022-2025

Charles Lu, MBA

Chief Commercial Officer, Mononuclear Therapeutics Ltd.
Hong Kong
2019-2024

Caridad Martinez, MD

Chief, Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapies, Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX
2022-2025

Aby J. Mathew, PhD

Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, BioLife Solutions, Inc.
Bothell, WA
2014-2023

Leland Metheny, MD

Associate Professor, Seidman Cancer Center
Cleveland, OH
2023-2023

Filippo Milano, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
2021-2024

Jonas C. Wang, PhD

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, StemCyte
Baldwin Park, CA
2020-2025

Jeffrey Wilson

Assistant Director of Operations
MD Anderson Cord Blood Bank
Houston, Texas
2018-2024