Owen Roberts

Owen Roberts joined the Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC) in October 2022 as Chief Executive Officer, bringing over 20 years of biotech executive experience to his role at CPDC.

A serial biotech entrepreneur, Owen was most recently the founder and CEO of Nobelex Biotech Inc., a Canadian biotech contract research organization focused on discovering and developing antibiotics to treat bacterial infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria. In addition to leading Nobelex since 2014, Owen also held part-time senior management roles with Meta Inc. (as CFO from 2015-2016) and M4K Pharma (as CEO from 2017 to 2020).

Prior to founding Nobelex in 2014, Owen was a co-founder of Affinium Pharmaceuticals, a privately held venture funded, clinical stage, antibiotic company. At Affinium, Owen held the position of CFO and led the company’s finance and business development until the successful sale of Affinium’s antibiotic programs to Debiopharm International, S.A. in February 2014. Prior to Affinium, in 1998, Owen helped create Borealis Biosciences, one of two companies which would merge to form Affinium in 2000. Prior to entering biotech, Owen was a financial executive at the Canadian subsidiaries of major US financial institutions.

Owen is a graduate of McGill University and is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.