Mr. Burger brings more than 30 years of investment banking and pharmaceutical/biotech business & Corporate development experience with extensive international experience in Japan. Mr. Burger served for nine years as Vice President Mergers and Acquisitions in Nikko-Blackstone, a Joint Venture between Nikko Securities and The Blackstone Group (in  the Tokyo office).  Tom also was President of AAI Japan (a subsidiary of a leading US based CDMO AAI Inc.)  In addition, Mr. Burger served as Vice President Business Development at Daiichi-Sankyo and spent a total of eight years as Vice President of Corporate Development at Genta. While at Genta., Mr. Burger closed the second largest single-product license deal ever done in the pharmaceutical industry with Aventis Pharmaceuticals (WSJ’s “Biotech Deal of The Year”). Mr. Burger did half of his undergraduate work at a University in Tokyo and received his MBA from the University of Southern California.  He is fluent in Japanese language.