Management Team
Robert Silverman JD, PhD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Silverman has been the President and co-founder of Revere Pharmaceuticals since 2016. He served as General Counsel of Concert Pharmaceuticals from 2007 to 2017, helping the company become public in 2014. He currently serves as a legal advisor for Concert. Previously, Dr. Silverman was Associate General Counsel at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda) where he led the company’s chemical patent practice. Prior to Millennium, he served in various legal roles at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and FMC Corporation. Dr. Silverman also lectures for the BIO Executive Training Programs.
Dr. Silverman started his career as a research chemist. He has over 20 US patents. Dr. Silverman received his BA degree from Lehigh University, his PhD from U of New Mexico, and did post-doctoral training in organic chemistry at Stanford University. He received his JD from Rutgers Law School.
Jedd Levine MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Levine is a medical oncologist and practiced clinical oncology for 30 years. He was managing partner of Connecticut Oncology and Hematology, LLC. He has served as a member of the clinical faculty in the Division of Oncology, Stanford University and Yale Medical School.
Dr. Levine was Chief Medical Officer of Egenix and Bantam Pharmaceutical, companies focused on development of small molecule therapeutics for cancer patients; and Chief Medical Officer of OncoPlex Diagnostics, a personalized medicine oncology molecular diagnostics company. He was a founding member and Executive VP of Oncology Partners, a consulting firm for development stage oncology companies.
Dr. Levine received his BS from Yale University, MD from Harvard Medical School, and MBA from Columbia Business School.
Erik Goka PhD
Vice President of Biology
Dr. Goka is a translational biologist with over 15 years of research experience. His research has focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of how oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes control signaling pathways leading to initial cellular transformation, tumor formation, tumor progression, metastatic dissemination, and resistance to conventional therapy. Dr. Goka was part of the team that discovered that HACE1, the E3 ubiquitin ligase for Rac1, is an important tumor-suppressor gene commonly lost in the progression of breast cancer.
Prior to Revere, Dr. Goka was Senior Director of Preclinical Development at Geneyus, LLC, where he led a team developing small molecule Rac1 inhibitors and authored multiple publications investigating the biological mechanisms of Rac1 signaling and how Rac1 inhibition can overcome resistance to standard-of-care treatment options.
Dr. Goka holds a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, Irvine.
Board of Directors
Robert Silverman JD, PhD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Silverman has been the President and co-founder of Revere Pharmaceuticals since 2016. He served as General Counsel of Concert Pharmaceuticals from 2007 to 2017, helping the company become public in 2014. He currently serves as a legal advisor for Concert. Previously, Dr. Silverman was Associate General Counsel at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda) where he led the company’s chemical patent practice. Prior to Millennium, he served in various legal roles at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and FMC Corporation. Dr. Silverman also lectures for the BIO Executive Training Programs.
Dr. Silverman started his career as a research chemist. He has over 20 US patents. Dr. Silverman received his BA degree from Lehigh University, his PhD from U of New Mexico, and did post-doctoral training in organic chemistry at Stanford University. He received his JD from Rutgers Law School.
Jedd Levine MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Levine is a medical oncologist and practiced clinical oncology for 30 years. He was managing partner of Connecticut Oncology and Hematology, LLC. He has served as a member of the clinical faculty in the Division of Oncology, Stanford University and Yale Medical School.
Dr. Levine was Chief Medical Officer of Egenix and Bantam Pharmaceutical, companies focused on development of small molecule therapeutics for cancer patients; and Chief Medical Officer of OncoPlex Diagnostics, a personalized medicine oncology molecular diagnostics company. He was a founding member and Executive VP of Oncology Partners, a consulting firm for development stage oncology companies.
Dr. Levine received his BS from Yale University, MD from Harvard Medical School, and MBA from Columbia Business School.
Marc Lippman MD
Dr. Lippman is a recognized leader in breast cancer research and currently Professor of Oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. He served as director of the NCI Designated Comprehensive Cancer of Georgetown University. He was the Kathleen and Stanley Glaser Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and the Deputy Director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He led the breast cancer section of the Medicine Branch at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Lippman has authored nearly 500 peer-reviewed publications and has received numerous honors for his work including the Rosenthal Prize of AACR, the Astwood prize of the Endocrine Society and the Brinker Prize from the Komen Foundation for his research in breast cancer.
Dr. Lippman served on the Board of Directors of Seattle Genetics and was a founder of Geneyus LLC. He holds an MD from Yale School of Medicine and a BA from Cornell University.
Kollol Pal PhD, MBA
Dr. Pal is an established serial entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He has spent much of his career within successful, early-stage companies where he held roles of increasing responsibility. Most recently, Dr. Pal was the Founder and CEO of Mnemosyne Pharmaceuticals (now known as Cadent Therapeutics), a neuroscience drug discovery company which partnered with Novartis in 2014. Prior to his work with Mnemosyne, he was Co-Founder and SVP of Research and Development at Corbus Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: CRBP), a clinical-stage company developing novel drugs for scleroderma and cystic fibrosis.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Pal served as Vice President of Chemistry at Neogenesis, a novel screening and chemistry technologies company acquired by Schering Plough-Merck, and as Director of Chemistry at the oncology startup Mitotix which was later acquired by GPC Biotech. He has also previously served as a Principal at PureTech Ventures (now PureTech Health). Kollol began his scientific career at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he was a member of the research team that developed Viramune, the first non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Pal holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Cornell University.
