Management Team

Mr. Cunningham has more than 20 years of successful leadership experience spanning from pre-IND drug discovery through the commercialization and launch of over a dozen therapies. He brings to Anebulo an in-depth understanding of maximizing therapeutic lifecycles, enhancing efficiencies and outcomes in biotech business models, and most importantly a commitment to a values-driven culture.

Most recently, Mr. Cunningham served as CEO at Tyme where he led the company through a merger with Syros Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Tyme, he was CEO at Icagen, leading the company through two transformational acquisitions. While CEO at Icagen, he oversaw the successful negotiation and execution of multiple licensing deals with Roche, Sanofi and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Prior to joining Icagen, Mr. Cunningham was an executive with Boehringer Ingelheim, where he held a variety of strategic and operational roles, including the launch of multiple products at Boehringer Ingelheim.

In addition, Mr. Cunningham excelled in the National Football League, holding All-Pro honors for the Dallas Cowboys. His career in the NFL spanned from 1994 until his retirement in 2002.

Prior to joining Anebulo, Dr. Cundy served as Chief Scientific Officer at CohBar, Inc., a publicly-traded biotechnology company developing therapeutics targeting chronic and age-related diseases, where he built a technology platform around peptides encoded in the mitochondrial genome, advancing the lead program to successful clinical proof of concept for NASH and obesity. Before CohBar, Dr. Cundy was Chief Scientific Officer at XenoPort, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on therapeutics for neurological disorders. He was coinventor of XenoPort’s approved drug Horizant®, leading efforts from discovery to development including approval for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia and restless legs syndrome in the US and Japan. Previously, Dr. Cundy held various positions at Gilead Sciences, Inc. where he was coinventor of the blockbuster drug tenofovir DF (Viread®) and a key contributor to the larger antiviral franchise, including Hepsera®, Vistide®, and Tamifu®.

Dr. Cundy started his scientific career at Sterling Winthrop, a pharmaceutical division of Eastman Kodak Company, where he developed novel formulation technologies exploiting Kodak’s historical capabilities. He was coinventor of Nanocrystal® technology used in many approved drug products. Dr. Cundy received a B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Manchester and registered as a pharmacist in the United Kingdom before earning a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Kentucky and postdoctoral training in Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.

Daniel George has managed his professional services practice since December 2022, specializing in providing executive financial services to healthcare companies. Mr. George served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Lucira Health, Inc. a publicly traded medical diagnostics company on a full-time basis from August 2020 to November 2022. From April 2019 until August 2020, Mr. George served as Lucira’s Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer through his consulting practice, which he established in May 2016, specializing in providing executive financial services to healthcare companies covering a broad range of specialties. Mr. George served as Vice President, Finance for Avinger Inc., a publicly traded medical device company specializing in peripheral atherectomy from August 2014 to May 2016. From June 2012 to August 2014, Mr. George served as a consultant and Vice President of Finance for ApniCure, Inc., a medical device company specializing in the treatment of sleep apnea. From March 2009 to June 2012, Mr. George worked for Avantis Medical Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of colonoscopy visualization technology, where he was both a consultant and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. George was also the Sr. Director of Finance at FoxHollow Technologies Inc., a publicly traded medical device company, and worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an accounting and management consulting firm, in the assurance and business advisory practice. Mr. George holds B.S. degrees in both Accounting and Finance from California State University, Long Beach.