Evan M. Levine has served as our Chief Executive Officer since September 2004 and as a member of the Board of Directors for ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals Inc. since October 2002. Between September 2004 and September 2006 Mr. Levine also served as President. From January 2004 until August 2005 Mr. Levine served as Vice Chairman of the Board and from October 2002 until August 2005 Mr. Levine served as Chief Operating Officer and Secretary. Mr. Levine is also Managing Member of Mark Capital LLC a venture capital fund specializing in technology and biotechnology investments. From March 2002 to June 2002 Mr. Levine served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Digital Courier Technologies Inc. a provider of advanced e-payment services for businesses merchants and financial institutions. From 1997 to 2001 he served as Managing Principal and Portfolio Manager of Brown Simpson Asset Management a private equity fund specializing in structured finance for public companies. From 1996 to 1997 he served as Senior Vice President of Convertible Sales and Trading at Dillon Read & Company a financial services company managing a proprietary convertible portfolio and supervising all institutional sales and trading activity. From 1993 to 1996 he served as Vice President of Convertible Sales and Trading at Hambrecht & Quist a financial services company where he handled all convertible operations and augmented investment banking and corporate finance revenues through his involvement in the placement of convertible products. From 1992 to 1993 he served as a Global Arbitrage Trader at Spectrum Trading Partners a financial derivatives trading company where he was responsible for maintaining market neutral and currency neutral hedges for an international convertible securities portfolio.
Mr. Levine has over 18 years of investment banking venture capital institutional trading arbitrage dealing and senior corporate management experience. He played key roles in the deployment of over $1 Billion of investment capital into the health care and technology sectors. Mr. Levine received his B.A. in Economics and Finance from Rutgers University and has completed graduate coursework for his MBA at New York University's Stern School of Business. |