The Team
Our team of advisors is a diverse group of leaders, engineers, scientists and experts in gene and cell therapy, innovator biologics, bio therapeutic proteins, mRNA derived manufacturing and biosimilars.
Mehrdad Haidari
Founder & Managing Partner
Mehrdad, coming from a generation of farmers and a finance background, founded a produce export company in California that has worked with some of the largest farmers in the US distributing produce across the world. Mehrdad sources the highest quality ingredients available on the market for Nature Gains products and has brought together a team of experts to craft leading innovative formulations that are transforming the industry benchmarks.
Niranjan Kumar, PDF, Ph.D.
Procurement / R&D
Niranjan has over 27 years of experience leading global biotechnology companies in a scientific, strategic and operational capacity. His areas of expertise include pre-clinical, clinical and commercial biologics for viral and bacterial vaccines, gene and cell therapy, innovator biologics and bio-similars, cell therapy, bio-therapeutic proteins and mRNA derived manufacturing. He has extensive experience leading innovative products to market.
Safee U. Chaudhri
Procurement / R&D
Safee has over 30 years of experience in procurement and research for the pharmaceutical industry. He has applied his extensive experience at Parexel, Oxford, QSC, PharMed, Median Consulting and a host of other leaders in their domains on the management of technical, regulatory and quality control systems pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry and according to FDA and ICH guidelines.
Ramy Al-Abed
Research and Development
Ramy has a background in systems engineering, product development and project management. He designs and implements innovative and effective process systems to manage schedules and deliverables in the pharmaceutical industry.
Omid Shirazi
Legal & Tax Compliance
Omid has practiced for both the public and private sectors for over 12 years including co-founding K&S Law Group. He is licensed under the State Bar of California, the US Central District Court (federal) the US Tax Court (federal) and is also a certified public accountant. He draws from extensive experience working with businesses, individuals and professionals on a range of complex issues.