Ashish Sanghrajka has been the President and Chief Financial Officer of Scopus Biopharma Inc. since August 2019. For more than 25 years prior to joining  Scopus, Mr. Sanghrajka was an investment banker across multiple sectors, with a particular concentration in healthcare, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Most recently, Mr. Sanghrajka was Managing Director — Equity Capital Markets, at Mizuho Securities USA LLC, the U.S. capital markets affiliate of one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Prior to joining Mizuho in 2011, Mr. Sanghrajka was a Managing Director in the United States for Collins Stewart, a leading U.K.-based growth company investment bank, which was acquired by Canaccord Financial Inc. From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Sanghrajka was the Managing Partner of BIO-IB, a boutique healthcare investment bank specializing in licensing/partnering and mergers and acquisitions for publicly-traded small cap healthcare companies, as well as for emerging private healthcare companies. From 1994 to 2002, Mr. Sanghrajka was an investment banker specializing in healthcare and other growth sectors at ABN Amro Rothschild (including predecessors ING Barings and Furman Selz).