
Cosmo Feilding Mellen
Co-Founder and Director
Cosmo served as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beckley Psytech Ltd.
Cosmo is a drug development entrepreneur dedicated to unlocking the medical potential of psychoactive substances in order to help patients in need. Cosmo worked closely with the Beckley Foundation for over 10 years and, in 2016, he co-founded Beckley Research & Innovations to develop ethical business models focused on scientific research into medical cannabis and psychedelics.
Cosmo subsequently served as Co-Founder and Managing Director of Beckley Canopy Therapeutics, a cannabis-based drug development company, and Spectrum Biomedical UK, a medical cannabis distribution company. In 2019, both of these companies were acquired by Canopy Growth Corporation, the world’s largest medical cannabis company.
In 2019, he co-founded Beckley Psytech, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing effective, rapid-acting and accessible psychedelic-based medicines for mental health conditions.
Senior Leadership

Srinivas Rao, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Anne Johnson
Chief Financial Officer

Gerd Kochendoerfer, Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer

Robert Conley, M.D.
Chief Research and Development Officer

Kevin Craig, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer

Glenn Short, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer

Ryan Barrett
Chief Legal and Business Officer
Board of Directors

Srinivas Rao, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Christian Angermayer
Founder and Chairman

Scott Braunstein, M.D.
Vice Chairman and Lead Independent Director Science and Technology Committee, Chair Audit Committee, Member

Cosmo Feilding Mellen
Co-Founder and Director

Laurent Fischer, M.D.
Director Science and Technology Committee, Member Compensation Committee, Member

Rob Hershberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Board member

Andrea Heslin Smiley
Director Compensation Committee, Chair Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, Member Audit Committee, Member

John Hoffman
Director

Amir Kalali, M.D.
Director Science and Technology Committee, Member Audit Committee, Member

Sabrina Martucci Johnson
Director Audit Committee, Chair Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, Chair

