Dr. Nicholas Hellmann serves as executive vice president of medical and scientific affairs at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. In this position, he provides strategic direction for programs and research initiatives, ensuring that children are at the forefront of medical and scientific breakthroughs. Prior to assuming his current position, Hellmann was the program leader of the HIV/AIDS program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was responsible for strategy, research, program, and policies related to HIV/AIDS for the Foundation. He has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, having worked with industry leaders like Roche Molecular Systems, ViroLogic, Gilead Sciences, Genentech, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Hellmann received his MD degree from the University of Kentucky in 1982, and completed his internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship training at University of California San Francisco (USFC), where he later became an assistant professor in the internal medicine/infectious diseases division. While on staff at UCSF, Hellmann conducted research in Uganda to identify HIV risk factors and develop effective intervention strategies to reduce heterosexual HIV transmission.

After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts, Nancy Brady worked for 13 years in the biotech and pharmaceuticalindustry where she specialized in sales and marketing. After leaving Pfizer in December 2011, she completed her Masters of Public Health at Boston University. She is currently a Public Health Technical Advisor at John Snow, Inc. in Boston, Mass. Concurrent with those endeavors, she has spent the last 15 years actively engaged in a variety of philanthropic activities at both US- and African-based nonprofit organizations whose focuses have included: HIV/AIDS services, healthcare capacity building, child assault prevention, Rwandan rape survivors and their families, youth empowerment, and microfinance. Brady has been an active board member whose activities have included program and resource development, fundraising, partnership building, entrepreneurship, strategic planning, training and facilitation, and public speaking.

Brady has spent much time traveling and working in less economically developed countries. At Pfizer, she was awarded a six-month Pfizer Global Health Fellowship at the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda through Accordia.