River Edge, N.J., USA - April 16, 2015, River Edge, N.J., USA - Nephros, Inc., a commercial stage medical device company, announced that Daron Evans has been appointed president and chief executive officer.
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Mr. Evans has served on Nephros’ board of directors since 2013. He is a life sciences executive
with over 20 years of financial leadership and operational experience.
Mr. Evans was recently
Managing Director of PoC Capital, LLC, and is a member of the board of Zumbro Discovery,
Inc., an early stage company developing a novel therapy for resistant hypertension.
From 2007 to 2013, Mr. Evans was Chief Financial Officer of Nile Therapeutics, Inc., a development-stage cardiovascular company that merged with Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. in 2013.
From 2004 to 2007, he held various project management and performance improvement roles at Vistakon Inc. and Scios, Inc., both divisions of Johnson & Johnson Corp.
Mr. Evans was a co-founder of Applied Neuronal Network Dynamics, Inc. and served as its President from 2002 to 2004. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Evans served in various roles at consulting firms Arthur D. Little and Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Mr. Evans received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rice University, his Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from a joint program at the University of Texas at Arlington and Southwestern Medical School and his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Effective upon Mr. Evans’s appointment, Paul Mieyal stepped down as acting CEO of Nephros and will remain as a member of the company’s board of directors.
Additionally, Lawrence Centella has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Mr. Centella has served as a director of Nephros since January 2001. Mr. Centella served as
President of Renal Patient Services, LLC, a company that owned and operated dialysis centers,
and served in such capacity from June 1998 to 2014.
From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Centella served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Gambro Healthcare, Inc., an integrated dialysis company that manufactured dialysis equipment, supplied dialysis equipment and operated dialysis clinics.
From 1993 to 1997, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Gambro Healthcare Patient Services, Inc. (formerly REN Corporation). ■