Kenneth I. Moch

Biography

Kenneth I. Moch has served as one of our directors since August 2015. Mr. Moch has more than 25 years of experience in managing and financing biomedical technologies, and has played a key role in building five life science companies. He is currently the president of Euclidean Life Science Advisors LLC, where he provides strategic and tactical counsel to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to that, he served as president and chief executive officer, and as a director, of Chimerix, Inc. from April 2010 to April 2014, having joined the company as chief operating officer in June 2009. Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of three life science companies—BioMedical Enterprises, Inc., Alteon, Inc., and Biocyte Corporation—and was a co-founder and vice president of The Liposome Company, Inc. He also served as managing director of Healthcare Investment Banking at ThinkEquity Partners and as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. In the public policy arena, Mr. Moch has served as chairman of BioNJ and as a member of the board of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Mr. Moch received an A.B. in Biochemistry from Princeton University and an M.B.A. with emphasis in Finance and Marketing from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Research Interest

At Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, we are dedicated to developing next-generation synthetic cannabinoid therapeutics for transdermal delivery for patients with high unmet medical needs.