Roelof Rongen

Mr. Rongen is the Chief Executive Officer and a Co-Founder of Matinas BioPharma. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Essential Fatty Acid Therapeutics, a biotech company focused on the development of innovative fatty acid derivatives. Prior to Matinas BioPharma, Mr. Rongen was Executive Vice President North American Operations for EPAX/Trygg Pharma and Vice President of Life Cycle Management and Intellectual Property at Reliant Pharmaceuticals, a GlaxoSmithKline subsidiary. While at Reliant, Mr. Rongen held various earlier positions, including head of the Omacor®/Lovaza® launch team, Executive Director of Marketing for Lescol® and Executive Director of Business Development. Before Reliant, Mr. Rongen was Global Product Director for Humira® at BASF Pharmaceuticals, later acquired by Abbott. He was also a consultant at The Wilkerson Group in New York and with Arthur D. Little in Amsterdam. Mr. Rongen earned an MBA from Kellogg GSM at Northwestern University, and a graduate degree in Molecular Sciences from Wageningen Univerisity in the Netherlands.