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Kevin Xu
Kevin Xu is the Chairman and CEO of ClinChoice, a global full-service contract research organization (CRO) with more than 30 years of history, roughly 4,000 staff, and operations across 15+ countries. He arrived in the corner office from the investor's side of the table: for over 15 years he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he built and ran the firm's Asia-Pacific Healthcare and Life Sciences investing practice, leading deals across biotech, pharma, medtech, CROs/CDMOs and digital health. Trained in neuroscience and clinical psychology before finance, he is an outspoken advocate for destigmatizing mental illness and an unlikely wake-surfer.
Thomas Galligan
Thomas J. Galligan III is the longtime restaurant operator who ran Papa Gino's, the New England pizza institution, and its sister chain D'Angelo Grilled Sandwiches. A PepsiCo and Morse Shoe veteran, he joined Papa Gino's in the mid-1990s, took the top job in 1996, pulled the chain out of a crushing debt load with a 1997 recapitalization, then turned a struggling pizzeria into an acquirer by buying D'Angelo from Pizza Hut for $55.5 million. In 2005 he co-founded Papa Gino's Holdings Corporation alongside Boston's Bunker Hill Capital, and he stayed at the helm as Chairman, President and CEO before serving as Executive Chairman until his retirement in 2014.