The Vitranu Team

  • Gordon Bethwaite

    Chief Executive Officer

    Gordon has worked in eye care for over 20 years, with senior management roles in both early commercial stage start ups and global organizations. He has deep knowledge of the market, having worked on several gold-standard technologies, and recently participated in a successful exit with Tear Film Innovations (acquired by Alcon).

  • Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, PhD

    Chief Technology Officer

    Katelyn is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio State. Previously she worked for Rochal Industries, a company specializing in using polymers to create products to promote wound healing.

  • Matthew Ohr, MD

    Chief Medical Officer, Medical Advisory Board member

    Matthew is a Professor, OSU Department of Ophthalmology, Director - Retina Division. His areas of specialization include vitreoretinal and corneal diseases involving the retina, vitreous (clear gel in the back of the eye), cornea (outer layer) and other structures.

  • Joe Seiwert III, MBA

    Joe Seiwert III, MBA

    Chief Product Development Officer

    Joe's 30 year pharma/biopharma career has spanned early stage entrepreneurial to marketed product firms. He is responsible for product development strategy and execution leading to marketed products. Proteins, vaccines, LNP-mRNA, AAV vector and small molecules are modalities he has worked with at Genentech, VaxGen, Boehringer Ingelheim and Ultragenyx.

  • Brian Price, PhD

    Director CMC

    Brian has more than 20 years of experience in product development, CMC, quality control and regulatory compliance. He primarily focused on development of biologics at Blue Water Vaccines, Myonexus Therapeutics Battelle Memorial Institute.

Medical Advisory Board

  • Peter K. Kaiser, M.D.


    Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic

    Chaney Family Endowed Professor of Ophthalmology Research, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine

  • Charles C. Wykoff, M.D.


    Director of Research, Retina Consultants of Houston

    Chairman of Research and Clinical Trials, Retina Consultants of America

    Deputy Chair for Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital

  • David S. Boyer, M.D.


    Retina-Vitreous Associates Medical Group, Southern California

    Adjunct Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California / Keck School of Medicine

  • Jeffrey S. Heier, M.D.


    Co-President, Medical Director, Director of Vitreoretinal Service, and Director of Retina Research, Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston