About Us

Choon co-founded immunoSCAPE in 2016 and serves as CEO and Chairperson. Previously, Choon was the Senior Director of the PharmBio cluster in A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) responsible for formulating Singapore’s Biomedical Research strategy. Prior to this, he was CEO Asia for LEO Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Denmark. He doubled the business of LEO in 15 Asian countries by breaking new ground in key countries and pushing for professionalism in key functional areas. Choon started his career in the biopharmaceutical industry at GSK, USA; and later at Scios Inc (Fremont, CA), a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson J&J. He rose through the ranks in J&J to become Country Manager of Janssen-Cilag Singapore, another J&J subsidiary. Choon’s first career was with the Singapore Armed Forces as a combat officer and he holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Retired).

Choon holds an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross Business School and completed Executive Education at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. He graduated with a BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics under a scholarship from the Singapore Armed Forces.

Alessandra co-founded ImmunoScape and serves as COO and Board Director. With a clinical background in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Parma, she has 25 years of international experience in the immunotherapy and immunomonitoring fields, having worked in both academic and industry environments across Italy, US, France and Singapore.

Alessandra started as a Research Fellow at the Istituto Zooprofilattico della Lombardia e dell’Emilia, where she focused on diagnostic and immunomonitoring techniques for viral diseases. In the late 90’s, as a Research Associate at the University of Virginia, she worked on the development of bispecific antibody constructs for the clearance of blood-borne pathogens and tumors.

Alessandra joined IDM Pharma in 1999, and as a Manager of Research Programs led investigations in cancer immunotherapy strategies and preclinical studies on dendritic cell and macrophage-based drug candidates targeting melanoma, bladder cancer and osteosarcoma. In 2006, she joined Singapore Immunology Network, A*STAR, where she rose to Head, Translational Immunology, and expanded into business development and IP valorization while supporting clinical studies in antibody immunotherapy and vaccines. She has published 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers in the field of immunology.

Michael co-founded ImmunoScape and serves as Director, Scientific Affairs. During his Phd Michael has focused on profiling human primary antigen-presenting cells in pathogenic interactions. As a postdoctoral fellow in Evan Newell’s laboratory at the Singapore Immunology Network, A*STAR, he gained in-depth experience in identifying and characterizing antigen-specific T cells in the fields of infectious diseases and cancer by using multiplexing tetramer and high-dimensional immune profiling technologies.

Michael has published in several peer-reviewed scientific papers in the field of immunology, including Nature, Cell, Immunity, Nature Communications and others.

Matt is an experienced life science business development executive and an entrepreneur.

As CFO, Romi is a part of the ImmunoScape Management team, and is responsible for Finance, Administration, Investor Relations, HR, and Procurement. Romi is a finance & management professional with extensive international experience.

Previously, Romi was Global CFO for Vela Diagnostics, where he was instrumental in raising PE & direct investor finance, driving M&A activity and building up of organization structures, systems & processes to sustainable operations. Prior to this, Romi worked across the world in various regional, country and business divisional CFO roles as a business partner in the German MNC Siemens. At Siemens, Romi contributed extensively in roles managing Finance, Accounting, Taxation, Audit, Costing, Controlling, Strategic Planning & management, M&A activities, Business Partnering, Project Pricing, Commercial Negotiating & Contracting, Project Controlling & Management.

Romi holds an honours degree in Commerce from Delhi University and he is member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Choon co-founded immunoSCAPE in 2016 and serves as CEO and Chairperson. Previously, Choon was the Senior Director of the PharmBio cluster in A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) responsible for formulating Singapore’s Biomedical Research strategy. Prior to this, he was CEO Asia for LEO Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Denmark. He doubled the business of LEO in 15 Asian countries by breaking new ground in key countries and pushing for professionalism in key functional areas. Choon started his career in the biopharmaceutical industry at GSK, USA; and later at Scios Inc (Fremont, CA), a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson J&J. He rose through the ranks in J&J to become Country Manager of Janssen-Cilag Singapore, another J&J subsidiary. Choon’s first career was with the Singapore Armed Forces as a combat officer and he holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Retired).

Choon holds an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross Business School and completed Executive Education at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. He graduated with a BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics under a scholarship from the Singapore Armed Forces.

Alessandra co-founded ImmunoScape and serves as COO and Board Director. With a clinical background in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Parma, she has 25 years of international experience in the immunotherapy and immunomonitoring fields, having worked in both academic and industry environments across Italy, US, France and Singapore.

Alessandra started as a Research Fellow at the Istituto Zooprofilattico della Lombardia e dell’Emilia, where she focused on diagnostic and immunomonitoring techniques for viral diseases. In the late 90’s, as a Research Associate at the University of Virginia, she worked on the development of bispecific antibody constructs for the clearance of blood-borne pathogens and tumors.

Alessandra joined IDM Pharma in 1999, and as a Manager of Research Programs led investigations in cancer immunotherapy strategies and preclinical studies on dendritic cell and macrophage-based drug candidates targeting melanoma, bladder cancer and osteosarcoma. In 2006, she joined Singapore Immunology Network, A*STAR, where she rose to Head, Translational Immunology, and expanded into business development and IP valorization while supporting clinical studies in antibody immunotherapy and vaccines. She has published 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers in the field of immunology.

Naonori (Nori) Kurokawa – Partner, UTEC – joined UTEC in August 2009. He focuses on physical science and life science investments: advanced material, nanotechnology, optoelectronics, imaging technology, life science tools, diagnostics, medical devices and therapeutics. He has been taking key roles in the investments of Microwave Chemical, 908 Devices, FLOSFIA, Quantum Biosystems, MOLCURE, Elixirgen Therapeutics, ImmunoScape, along with other companies.

Prior to UTEC, Nori joined ARCH Venture Partners as an intern in February 2008. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he won the first place and the award for the most innovative plan in Edward L. Kaplan New Venture Challenge 2008. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics from Osaka University in 2003.

David Michael is Managing Partner at Anzu Partners, where he co-leads the firm’s life sciences investments. He has helped develop and financed a portfolio of innovative life sciences companies, including BioSkryb, Inc (single cell genomics), InterVenn (glycoproteomics), and TeraPore Technologies (advanced bioseparations).  

Prior to his work at Anzu, Mr. Michael spent 24 years at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a Senior Partner and served in numerous leadership roles, working in the firm’s offices in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, and Beijing. Mr. Michael has a B.A. in economics from Harvard and an MBA from Stanford.