Brad Trumble CPA-CMA, MBA

President

Brad is a finance leader with a broad base of experience in finance, accounting, and strategy with particular emphasis on building value.  Brad has a depth of experience in the acquisition, divestiture, and culture amalgamation of organizations across a wide variety of businesses.  Most recently Brad has been involved in software service and manufacturing companies and led the successful refinancing of the organizations.

Brad is a CPA-CMA and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Alberta and MBA from Queens & Cornell Universities. Brad is actively involved in the community through youth programs in Alberta and serves as the Secretary/ Treasurer to the World Petroleum Council (Canadian Chapter).

Huan Nguyen, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

Dr. Huan Nguyen is an accomplished immunologist with over 25 years of experience in antiviral and cancer immunology research. He obtained his PhD in Immunology. Dr. Nguyen began his career as a faculty member at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he established a research program on mechanisms of heterosubtypic immunity against influenza viruses.

He went on to serve as Head of the Viral Immunology Laboratory at the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul, South Korea. During this time, Dr. Nguyen secured funding from major agencies including the NIH, NRF, Gates Foundation, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to support his influenza vaccine research.

In 2016, Dr. Nguyen joined IGY Immune Technologies & Life Sciences as Chief Scientific Officer. At IGY LS, he has led the development of antibodies for prophylaxis and therapy of infectious diseases, autoimmunity, inflammation, and cancer. His team has created patentable technologies including broadly protective avian IgY antibodies against rotavirus and influenza.

Dr. Nguyen has maintained academic ties as an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University since 2017. He has authored over 80 publications, including original research articles, reviews, and book chapters in prestigious journals such as Journal of Virology, PLOS One, and Expert Review of Vaccines. In 2008, Dr. Nguyen received the prestigious Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Award to explore universal influenza vaccines and antibodies. He is an active member of several professional societies including the American Association of Immunologists and serves as an expert reviewer for major funding agencies and journals in his field.

Jeff Stubbings

Chief Operating Officer

Jeff has over twenty years of private and public sector management experience. Prior to joining IGY Life Sciences in 2021, Jeff worked for the Office of the Registrar General for the Province of Ontario, leading several initiatives that impacted the lives of citizens in the province, including identity management, data management, and the shift to online services. In the private sector, Jeff was the co-developer of a bio-fuel generator, converting farm and food processing waste into electrical power. As our Chief of Operations, Jeff has been leading our efforts in the development and implementation of our cGMP operational procedures, developing a resilient supply chain, strategic planning, and introducing asset and inventory control systems. Jeff is part of the IGY Export Development Team, with the primary responsibility of navigating foreign regulatory bodies and legislation to develop a global distribution system for our product. Jeff is also part of the Change Management Team, the group tasked with developing, writing, implementing, and maintaining the Company’s cGMP documentation, ensuring our products are manufactured using the highest quality standards in nutraceutical production.

Jit Mistry

Chief Brand Officer

Jit Mistry is responsible for creating and accelerating the company’s marketing strategy and brand recognition. He is focused on driving the company vision of improving people’s lives by building programs to promote the company’s exceptional product innovations and purpose driven initiatives.

With over 25 years, he brings significant experience across marketing, sales, and product development, brand management, digital, strategy, creative, and event management.

In his most recent role, he led brand development and marketing activities for a leading B2B Canadian health services provider involved in third party laboratory testing, regulatory services, for natural health products, pharmaceuticals, botanicals, cannabis, food, and cosmetics/personal products, and contract manufacturing for natural health products. natural health products for the direct-to-consumer markets. During his tenure, he rebuilt the company’s B2B division’s 30-year-old brand bringing greater clarity to service and product offerings, led marketing development of new services, developed and implemented digital programs encompassing content, social and SEO, email driving exceptional demand traffic.

Navneet Sharma PhD, EMBA

Chief of Quality and Regulatory Compliance

Navneet is a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and has worked in pharma, biotech industry and academia for more than two decades. Some of his previous employers include DSM anti-infectives, HTC Extraction Systems and University of Calgary where he has worked in the areas of R&D, Process Development, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance. Navneet has experience in the development of fermentation and purification processes for production of semi-synthetic antibiotics, recombinant enzymes, antibodies as well as vaccines. He has extensive experience in the field of high throughput proteomics.

Navneet had the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor at Faculty of Medicine in University of Calgary. He worked in research for more than a decade resulting in many great publications in reputed journals like PLOS One, Vaccine, Biological Chemistry, Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, as examples. He also filed some US and Canadian patent applications. Navneet had been teaching biotech business, quality, and regulatory affairs in a graduate program at University of Calgary for more than a decade. Most recently, he earned an Executive MBA (EMBA) in Innovative Leadership.