Rani is a relentless big picture thinker, adept on the world stage delivering creative and bespoke award-winning deals in the Sovereign, Financial Institutions, Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, TMT, F&B/FMCG and Consumer sectors. With broad transaction experience in North America, 10 MENA, 5 European and 4 Asian countries. Rani is comfortable in building shareholder value in established and emerging markets.

With over three decades of experience in financial services and investment banking, Rani leads Noble’s advisory and capital raising businesses. Prior to this, he was Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking with NBK Capital for 15 years. Rani firstly originated and led the NBK Capital Investment Banking platform. His leadership enabled acquisition of 80% overall market share, with deal volume exceeding $120B and expanding operations across the MENA region.

He has advised boards and C-suite teams on changing global market landscapes and pushed for acquisitions to drive inorganic growth and generate operating and financial synergies to enhance corporate performance. In concert with his hands-on leadership career, Rani’s engagements at Board/Committee level have focused upon complex financial matters and governance.

As an emerging market expert, he is a featured commentator for CNBC Arabia, Reuters and Bloomberg News networks. Moreover, Rani was a featured speaker on numerous occasions for the Trade and Export Finance, Euromoney, Petroleum Economist, Gulf Bond and Sukuk Association and CME LIBOR Transition conferences across the globe.

Rani has an MBA with high distinction from Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science from New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is a Graduate of Executive Programs from IMD in Switzerland, fluent in English and Arabic, and conversational in Spanish and French.

Nathan Cali has more than 14 years of combined healthcare, biotechnology and pharmaceutical experience. Mr. Cali was previously a sell-side analyst for 9 years with expertise and publications cover many areas of biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals (branded and generics), medical devices, and regenerative medicine. He has been quoted in most business journals including Reuters, BioMed Reports and the Washington Business Journal. Mr Cali is the co-founder of Variant Pharmaceuticals an early stage biotechnology company advancing orphan drugs for the treatment of renal diseases. He is currently a Committee Member at the Moffitt Cancer Center for Commercialization and a member of the Development Board of Palm Beach County. Mr. Cali started his career in healthcare at Andrx Corporation, a biotechnology and specialty pharmaceuticals company known for its expertise in the development of controlled-release drugs. Mr. Cali was a corporate manager dealing in finance, state taxation, corporate governance, patents, drug distribution and business development for the biotechnology firm. Andrx was purchased by Watson Pharmaceuticals in 2006 for $2.0 billion in cash. Prior to joining NOBLE, Mr. Cali gained investment experience as a portfolio account analyst/manager at Franklin Templeton Investments. Mr. Cali holds a B.S. in Finance from The Florida State University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Nova Southeastern University. Nathan also currently holds series 7, 79, 86, and 87 FINRA designations.

Christopher Ensley is a Managing Director of technology, media & telecom (TMT) investment banking at NOBLE Capital Markets where he focuses on capital raising, mergers and acquisition advisory and valuation opinions for clients. During his tenure on Wall Street, Mr. Ensley has participated in over $16B in transactions. Prior to NOBLE, Mr. Ensley was a TMT investment banker at Coady Diemar Partners, a boutique investment bank in NYC. Prior to Coady Diemar, Mr. Ensley was a Managing Director in the equity research department at Bear Stearns. While at Bear Stearns, Mr. Ensley was a member of the #1 rated broadcast equity research team for six straight years (2002-2007). Mr. Ensley was a Vice President of equity research covering the broadcast sector at Lazard. He began his Wall Street career as an equity research analyst at Salomon Brothers where he covered the tower industry in addition to the broadcasting industry. He received an MBA from Vanderbilt University and a BA from the College of William & Mary.

Prior to joining Noble, Michel has been a partner at JSB-partners since 2006. Michel has been active in the life science industries since the early 1980s, specializing in finance, strategic planning, sales and marketing, and international management.

Before JSB-Partners, Michel ran his own consulting practice in Vienna, Austria. Earlier in his career, he developed the health care unit at Droege & Comp., a strategy consulting firm in Düsseldorf, Germany. Prior to that experience, he served as managing director of Octapharma GmbH and as Vice President of International Marketing for the Octapharma Group, where he was responsible for business in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, and South Africa.

Preceding Octapharma, Michel was head of Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals’ Austrian operations in Vienna; as its Head of Planning Information and Control in Johannesburg, South Africa; and as its Head of Marketing of the Danish group company in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. Gouy joined Ciba-Geigy in 1983 as an assistant to the International Operations and Marketing committee in its Basel, Switzerland offices.

Mr. Gouy earned a graduate business degree from EAP/ESCP European School of Management and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Prior to joining Noble, Dr. Stoiber was a co-founder and partner of JSB-Partners. He has more than 30 years of experience as a physician, pharmaceutical industry executive, and investment banker. Dr. Stoiber has advised numerous companies, closing transactions with a cumulative value of more than $2.5 billion.

Before co-founding JSB-Partners, he was a partner at MPM Capital, where he built the firm’s transatlantic business, initiating and managing a number of cross-border transactions with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Prior to MPM he led F. Hoffmann-LaRoche’s Austrian and French pharmaceutical divisions.

Following Dr. Stoiber’s medical and clinical training, his career at Roche began in the organization’s medical marketing division and continued in its marketing and sales operations.

He contributed to the creation of a number of companies, including Therascope, AC Immune, and PNB. Dr. Stoiber previously served on the board of directors of Therascope AG (later Alantos, now Amgen), GPC Biotech AG, and East Pharma Ltd.

Dr. Stoiber earned an MD, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Munich and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Francisco Penafiel joined NOBLE Capital Markets in 2002 after earning his Master of Science in Economics, with concentrations in Finance and International Economics from Florida Atlantic University. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Escuela Superior Politecnica in Ecuador, where he double-majored in Statistics and Computing Science. Prior to joining the investment banking department at Noble in 2011, Francisco was part of NOBLE's research department, working as a supervisory analyst and equity research analyst covering the enterprise/infrastructure software and business services industries. Other responsibilities included portfolio managing, computer modeling analysis and statistical review. He is also a member of the Company's Investment Policy Committee. Francisco holds various FINRA licenses and is a candidate in the CFA program.

Richard Kreger is head of the investment banking department of RHK Noble Capital Markets, who solely does business through Noble Capital Markets. Mr. Kreger is well known for his expertise in equity capital markets transactions, with a strong focus on rights offerings and protecting tax loss carryforwards. Mr. Kreger has completed hundreds of transactions over his career. Mr. Kreger served in various leadership positions for firms including Advisory Group Equity Services, Ltd. dba RHK Capital, Source Capital Group, Maxim Group, Midtown Partners and H.C. Wainwright. Mr. Kreger has completed private placements and registered offerings for both publicly traded and private companies over his 17-year career. Richard holds his series SIE, 7, 63, 65, 79 and 24 licenses.

Mr. Musing is the former Global Head of Biotechnology Licensing and Business Development and has been responsible for global Drug Licensing at Johnson & Johnson. In that position he negotiated and signed several multi-million dollar deals with medium and large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on a worldwide basis. He has more than 36 years' experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry and has been President and Managing Director of Johnson & Johnson Companies in the US and Europe, President of Ares Serono in the US and Executive Vice President for Ares Serono companies in North and Latin America. Mr. Musing has been on the Board of Johnson & Johnson Companies in Germany, France, Italy and the UK, and has been a Member of the Management Board of Ortho Biotech, (a J&J biotechnology company) in the US and Europe. He is currently Executive Chairman of Pelican Therapeutics and is a member of the Board of several companies including Delphi Digital and TherapeuticsMD.

Michael Lerner, Chair of Lowenstein Sandler's Life Sciences Group, has been advising pharmaceutical, life sciences and healthcare companies on key strategic matters for over 30 years. Previously, he served as VP and General Counsel at Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc., helping it grow into one of the nation's largest privately held pharmaceutical companies before it was acquired by GSK in 2007. As part of the senior management team, Mr. Lerner led product acquisitions and dispositions totaling in excess of $650 million, and raised more than $660 million in equity and debt. Mr. Lerner subsequently served as SVP and General Counsel of EKR Therapeutics, a specialty pharmaceutical company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Lerner was at the law firm of Gibbons PC, where he was the partner in charge of the pharmaceutical and life sciences practice. Mr. Lerner currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center for the Study of Pharmaceutical Management Issues, which is part of Rutgers Graduate School of Business.

Camillo Ricordi, M.D. is the Stacy Joy Goodman Professor of Surgery, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Miami (UM), Florida, where he serves as Director of the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI; www.diabetesresearch.org) and the Cell Transplant Program. Dr. Ricordi also served as Responsible Head of the Human Cell Processing Facility (1993-2014), an NIH funded cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) facility that has been providing Human Cell Products for research and clinical applications at UM, in Florida and worldwide since 1993. Dr. Ricordi has also served as Co-Director of the Executive Office of Research Leadership (2001-2003) as Senior Associate Dean for Research (2003-2006) and chaired the Dean’s Research Cabinet (2006-2012) at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

In 2015 Dr. Ricordi led the UM – UHealth – JMH team that performed the first successful transplant of a bioengineered endocrine pancreas implanted within a 3D bioactive resorbable scaffold in the abdominal cavity of a recipient with a severe form of Type 1 Diabetes (BioHUB Project). The patient has been able to discontinue insulin treatment since the first month post-transplant with excellent metabolic control. This unprecedented success resulted in renewed enthusiasm for the possibility to engineer this transplant site with additional strategies to avoid the requirements for recipient immunosuppression, and has resulted in additional key collaborative efforts, from Harvard to Stanford and with other leading international centers. The same year Dr. Ricordi launched the DRI Translational Fast Track Program to Reverse Autoimmunity and Induce Immune Tolerance, which he co-leads with Dr. Jay Skyler, in collaboration with several key UM investigators, from the SCCC, the DRI, the Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology and Epidemiology.

Dr. Ricordi was president of the Cell Transplant Society (1992-94), co-founder and chairman of the National Diabetes Research Coalition (Chairman 1997), co-founder and president (1999-2001) of the International Association for Pancreas and Islet Transplantation (IPITA), and a member of the council of The Transplantation Society (2002-2008). He also served on the council of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (2000-2002), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH-NIAID) Expert Panel on clinical approaches for tolerance induction, on the FDA Biologic Response Modifiers Advisory Committee, on the NIH/NCRR Islet Cell Resources (ICRs) Executive Committee, on the NIH-NIDDK Strategic Planning Committee and on the NIH-NIAID Expert Panel on Transplantation Research. He is currently serving as Chairperson of the Clinical Islet Transplant Consortium (NIDDK-NIAID). He has also been serving on several NIH study sections, including Surgery, Anesthesia and Trauma, the General Clinical Research Centers, Small Business Innovative Research, the Immune Tolerance Network, in addition to serving as a reviewer for several international funding agencies.

Dr. Ricordi has received numerous honors and awards, including the 2001 Nessim Habif World Prize in Surgery (University of Geneva) for developing a technology that significantly contributed to the advancement of a surgical field

Dr. Mulé is the Associate Center Director for Translational Research, the Michael McGillicuddy Endowed Chair for Melanoma Research and Treatment, and Director of Cell-based Therapies at the Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida. He is recognized for his research and clinical trial contributions to cancer immunotherapy, particularly in solid tumors. He has published nearly 200 articles in oncology, and holds domestic and international patents. Dr. Mulé serves on advisory boards of numerous biotechnology and pharma companies (e.g., Fulgent Diagnostics, OncoPep, Vault Pharma, Celgene, among others). Dr. Mulé remains a long-standing special government employee to the FDA (CDER and CBER) and the NCI. He was Chair of the Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapy Advisory Committee of CBER, FDA. He currently serves on the advisory boards of several NCI-designated Cancer Centers and was a member of the NCI Director’s Board of Scientific and Clinical Counselors.