Board of Directors

Gayl Chrysler

BioE, Vice President of Cellular Technologies and Clinical Affairs

Gayl Rogers Chrysler has 30 years of leadership experience in strategic development and operational management of FDA regulatory-compliant businesses.  She started her medical career as a registered nurse working in blood apheresis.  Between 1982 and 2003 she worked for the North Central Blood Services of the American Red Cross. During her time at the Red Cross, she completed an MBA degree.  She increased the production capacity of the American Red Cross Apheresis Unit by 400% over a 3 year period, becoming one of the largest Apheresis Units in the U.S.  She also has worked in organ and tissue donation and has been an associate editor of the Journal of Transplant Coordination since 1991.  She created and implemented innovations to increase consented cadaver tissue donors by 300% over a one year period.  Chrysler helped create the Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Program for the American Red Cross, a prototype for the National Marrow Donor Program.  Gayl Chrysler is best known in cord blood circles for her work as the National Director of Operations of the Cord Blood Program at the American Red Cross.  She transformed the American Red Cross Cord Blood Bank into a profitable financial operation and the fourth largest Cord Blood Bank in the U.S. after only 5 years of operations.  Chrysler joined BioE in 2006 as vice president of cellular technologies and clinical affairs.  She is currently responsible for commercialization and global marketing of BioE's PrepaCyte cell separation technology.

Deborah Hernandez, MBA

Deborah Hernandez and Associates, Consultant

Deborah Hernandez has extensive expertise in medical marketing.  She began her career as a nurse; after graduating from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Science in nursing she worked as an oncology/bone marrow transplant nurse at the Children’s Hospital of Northern California.  Hernandez later joined Abbott Laboratories, first in a clinical education role, then advancing into various sales, strategic, analytical and marketing roles.  She then moved to TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc. where Hernandez held several positions including Senior Marketing Manager for AndroGel® and Group Marketing Manager for Prevacid® Consumer and Patient Initiatives.  While there, Hernandez earned her MBA in Marketing with additional studies in operations and business strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.  Next, Hernandez  was at Biogen Idec, in Boston, as the Director of Neurology Consumer Marketing for MSActiveSource®, their service brand, Avonex®, and Tysabri®.  At the time that she joined our Board of Directors in 2007, Hernandez served as the Vice President of marketing for StemCyte, helping to launch the family banking services of a well-known public cord blood bank.  Deborah Hernandez moved to PARTNERS + simons in summer 2008 as their Director of Professional Marketing. She then launched her own consulting firm in early 2010. In Jan. 2012, Hernandez became the Sr. Director of Marketing Communications and Public Relations for Children's Hospital of Boston.

Misty Marchioni

Community Blood Services, Director of Operations & Business Development

Misty Marchioni is currently Director of Operations & Business Development at Community Blood Services, which is home to both the Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Program (a family bank) and the New Jersey Cord Bank (a public bank).  She is responsible for both company client accounts and hospital accounts.  Prior to joining Community Blood Services, Marchioni worked in hematology, chemistry, and research laboratories.  Misty Marchioni attended William Paterson University in West Paterson, NJ for nursing, and received her medical laboratory technology degree from Bergen County Community College in Paramus, NJ.  Her laboratory internship was spent at Hackensack University Medical Center.  Misty Marchioni received certification by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and in May 2009 completed a bachelors in Organizational Management. 

Gail Moskowitz, M.D.

Consultant, Specializing in medical direction of blood and tissue banks

Dr. Moskowitz specializes in pathology and the medical leadership of blood banks.  She holds academic appointments as Lecturer in Pathology at Harvard Medical School and as Assistant Clinical Professor of Pathology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.    Dr. Moskowitz has held several posts directing blood banks throughout the New York area, including at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the New York Blood Center, and the Blood Bank and Hematology Laboratories at the Albany Medical Center.   She also served as Chairman of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at St. Vincent’s Midtown Hospital in New York.  More recently, she has served as the medical director of cord blood banks, both private and public.  Dr. Moskowitz has provided healthcare consultant services in the fields of blood banking, cellular therapeutics, laboratory medicine, pharmaceutical, medical-legal and regulatory affairs, and medical informatics.  Dr. Moskowitz is active in the AABB and serves on the AABB’s Cellular Therapies -Standards Program Unit.  She also serves as a Consultant to the New York State Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Study Panel.

Marion Welch

LifeLine Cryogenics, Medical Coordinator

Marion Welch has been the Medical Coordinator for Lifeline Cryogenics for the past 7 years. Before that, she represented cord blood banking services to obstetricians as an employee for PDI Inc., a contract provider of pharmaceutical sales services. Welch holds a degree from William Paterson University.

David Zitlow

Cord Blood Registry, Executive Vice President

David Zitlow is responsible for directing corporate reputation, media relations, advocacy, public policy and internal communications for Cord Blood Registry.  Zitlow has spent the majority of his career in healthcare marketing and public relations and has extensive experience leading consumer awareness and health education initiatives for a wide range of corporations and non-profit organizations.  Prior to joining CBR, he was executive vice president and director of the healthcare practice at GolinHarris, a global public relations agency, where he earned various industry awards for his work on HIV education and smoking cessation programs.  Zitlow holds a master's degree in integrated marketing and public relations from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in political science and Spanish from DePauw  University.  He and his wife chose to preserve the cord blood of both of their children after receiving education on all banking options from their physician.