Wheeler Bio, Inc., a clinical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), appointed Stewart McNaull Chief Business Officer. Stewart will be leading the commercialization of Wheeler’s tech platform – Portable CMC – to rapidly advance biologics programs from discovery to clinical leads.

McNaull most recently served as Business Unit Head, Biologics and Vaccines at Resilience where he had global responsibility for the Resilience franchise, entailing development and execution of sales and marketing strategy, network capacity and resource utilization, franchise P/L responsibility for seven sites and co-sponsorship of technology roadmap design and execution.  

Previously, he held senior commercial roles in established CDMOs including KBI Biopharma and Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies. He has a track record of leading the design and execution of CDMO network development and sales and marketing strategies delivering speed-to-clinic solutions to the market multiple times.

“I couldn’t be more excited to help Wheeler launch their foundational tech stack that will speed our partners’ journey from discovery to human proof-of-concept,” said McNaull. “What appealed to me most about Wheeler is the unique combination of mission, team, technology, and venture ecosystem – they are raising the bar in biologics CMC development and completely changing the customer experience.” 

“I am thrilled to be welcoming Stewart to the team this week at BIO,” said Jesse McCool, Co-Founder and CEO at Wheeler Bio. “He has an impressive commercial CDMO background that is deeply rooted in process development, technical operations, and academic training. He joins us already with a deep acumen of early development strategies and will be able to accelerate our launch into the cGMP arena.” 

As a chemical engineer by training, McNaull held several technical roles in the industry providing an insightful link to integrate technology and business priorities to meet unique client needs. At Bayer he was responsible for new technology innovation and driving them to the manufacturing floor. At Fujifilm he championed implementation of single-use technologies, completing the first single-use manufacturing batch within the Merck network.