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People Behind the Platform

Our Team

A multidisciplinary team across natural-products science, pharmaceutical development, capital, and responsible development.

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Introduction

Built Across Disciplines

Developing natural-product therapeutics requires more than a single area of expertise.

Reset Health is assembling a team that connects entrepreneurship, pharmaceutical development, science, and responsible development.

Our leadership model reflects the company we are building: globally connected, scientifically rigorous, and rooted in Gabon.

The strongest biotechnology platforms are built by teams capable of connecting science, execution, capital, and purpose.

Leadership

Executive Leadership

The founding team leading Reset Health's strategy, capital formation, partnerships, and platform execution.

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Stéphane Lasme

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Entrepreneur, investor, and Gabonese-American leader building Reset Health at the intersection of biotechnology, natural products, and responsible development.

Stéphane Lasme is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Reset Health, leading the company's strategy, capital formation, partnerships, and platform development. Born in Gabon and based in the United States, he brings a cross-border perspective connecting scientific ambition, Gabonese institutions, and international investors. Beyond Reset Health, he is a co-founder of STEDDE Capital, with experience across investment, advisory, and business development. His work at Reset Health centers on translating a natural-products biotechnology vision, beginning with iboga, into a credible, responsibly built company rooted in Gabon.

Areas of expertise

  • Strategy
  • Capital
  • Partnerships
  • Gabon
  • Biotechnology
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Devon Kelley

Co-Founder

Co-founder supporting Reset Health's strategy, corporate development, partnerships, financing, and long-term platform execution.

Devon Kelley is a Co-Founder of Reset Health, working alongside the leadership team on corporate strategy, partnerships, financing, and governance as the company develops its natural-products biotechnology platform. As a co-founder of STEDDE Capital, he brings experience across investing, strategic advisory, and company building. At Reset Health, his focus is helping translate the company's scientific and mission-driven ambitions, beginning with responsible development of iboga-derived materials, into an executable and scalable business.

Areas of expertise

  • Strategy
  • Corporate Development
  • Investment
  • Partnerships
  • Operations

Network

Advisors & Partners

Reset Health's development model requires expertise across science, capital, policy, culture, clinical development, natural products, manufacturing, and international collaboration. We work with experienced advisors and partners who strengthen different parts of the platform.

Strategic Advisors

Company-building and capital perspective supporting long-term platform development.

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Simeon Schnapper

Managing Partner, JLS Fund

JLS Fund

Relationship to Reset Health: Strategic Advisor

Investor and entrepreneur bringing experience across emerging therapeutics, biotechnology investing, strategic development, and the evolving psychedelic-medicine ecosystem.

Simeon Schnapper is Managing Partner of JLS Fund, a venture capital firm focused on the intersection of science, technology, and emerging therapeutic approaches. As a Strategic Advisor to Reset Health, he brings an investor and company-building perspective relevant to capital strategy, industry positioning, and long-term company development. Through JLS Fund and his broader entrepreneurial work, he has been active in the evolving psychedelic and alternative-medicine investment ecosystem, contributing perspective as Reset Health builds its natural-products platform and relationships across the biotechnology and investment community.

Areas of expertise

  • Venture Capital
  • Biotechnology
  • Emerging Therapeutics
  • Strategic Development
  • Capital Strategy
  • Psychedelic Medicine

Scientific Collaborators

Independent researchers whose work contributes to the scientific ecosystem around Gabonese natural products.

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Dr. Bayissi Bading-Taika

Lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Hertfordshire

University of Hertfordshire · IPHAMETRA, Gabon

Relationship to Reset Health: Scientific Collaborator

Pharmacology researcher specializing in natural products, molecular pharmacology, and translational research.

Dr. Bayissi Bading-Taika is a Lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom and a researcher affiliated with IPHAMETRA in Gabon. She holds a PhD in Pharmacology and Pharmacy from the University of Hertfordshire. Her research focuses on molecular pharmacology and the therapeutic potential of natural resources, including the study of medicinal plants such as Tabernanthe iboga using cellular models and computational approaches to investigate pharmacological activity. Her work contributes to the broader scientific ecosystem around Gabonese natural-products research.

Areas of expertise

  • Pharmacology
  • Natural Products
  • Research
  • Metabolic Health
  • Gabon

Gabon Leadership

Coordination across Gabonese institutions, environmental governance, community stakeholders, and reciprocity programs.

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Georges Gassita

Environmental-law and public-sector professional

Relationship to Reset Health: Gabon Program Leadership

Gabonese environmental-law and public-sector professional supporting coordination across responsible development, institutions, scientific partners, and community stakeholders.

Georges Gassita is a Gabonese environmental-law expert and senior public-sector professional whose work connects environmental governance, cultural stewardship, and institutional coordination. Within the broader Reset Health ecosystem, he supports coordination among Gabonese stakeholders, scientific institutions, and community initiatives related to responsible iboga development and reciprocity, helping connect the company's development objectives with local institutions, environmental considerations, and community priorities in Gabon.

Areas of expertise

  • Gabon
  • Environmental Governance
  • Reciprocity
  • Institutions
  • Community

Relationships are described exactly as they exist. Advisors, scientific collaborators, and program leadership are not employees, executives, or board members of Reset Health, and institutional affiliations shown do not imply any investment, endorsement, or corporate relationship between those institutions and Reset Health.

Philosophy

What We Are Building Requires a Different Kind of Team

Reset Health sits at the intersection of disciplines that are often separated: natural-product science, responsible sourcing, pharmaceutical development, and Gabonese institutions.

That requires people who are comfortable working across traditional boundaries.

  • Science

    Natural products, pharmacology, and translational research.

  • Development

    Pharmaceutical development, quality, and regulatory strategy.

  • Business & Capital

    Partnerships, capital formation, and corporate strategy.

  • Gabon

    Institutions, scientific capacity, and responsible sourcing.

  • Responsibility

    Traceability, stewardship, and reciprocity.

Careers

Build With Us

Help build a new natural-products biotechnology platform from the source.

Reset Health is building across science, pharmaceutical development, partnerships, and corporate functions.

We are particularly interested in people excited by multidisciplinary problems and by the opportunity to help build lasting scientific capacity in Gabon.

We value

  • Scientific rigor
  • Intellectual curiosity
  • Operational discipline
  • Entrepreneurial thinking
  • Cultural respect
  • Global collaboration
  • Ownership
  • Long-term thinking

We are building a team for people who want to create infrastructure, not simply inherit it.

Careers

Build With Us

Reset Health is bringing together scientific, operational, and strategic expertise to advance responsible natural-product biotechnology. As the company grows, we expect to expand our team across disciplines and geographies.

We are interested in hearing from scientists, researchers, operators, and other professionals who share our commitment to rigorous science, responsible development, and the potential of plant-derived medicines.

Future opportunities may span scientific research, pharmaceutical development, quality and regulatory disciplines, operations, and corporate functions.

Talent interest

Interested in Joining Reset?

We're always interested in connecting with exceptional people who believe in rigorous science, responsible innovation, and the future of natural-product biotechnology.

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Submissions are reviewed as relevant opportunities develop. We are not able to respond to every inquiry.

Geography

Rooted in Gabon. Built Globally.

Reset Health is building from Gabon while collaborating globally.

Our model brings together the botanical and scientific potential of Gabon with international expertise across biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, and capital.

The objective is to build an integrated team capable of creating scientific and economic value across both geographies.

Gabon

  • Research
  • Clinical Development
  • Manufacturing
  • Capital
  • Universities
  • Pharmaceutical Partners
  • Scientific Institutions

Culture

How We Work

  1. 01

    Build With Ownership

    Take responsibility for outcomes and solve problems beyond narrow job descriptions.

  2. 02

    Follow the Evidence

    Let data, scientific rigor, and thoughtful analysis guide decisions.

  3. 03

    Respect the Source

    Recognize the botanical, cultural, environmental, and human context behind the work.

  4. 04

    Think Long-Term

    Build systems, relationships, capabilities, and companies intended to compound over time.

  5. 05

    Collaborate Across Boundaries

    The problems we are solving span countries, disciplines, institutions, capital markets, and industries.

Closing

The Platform Is Only as Strong as the People Building It

Reset Health is assembling a multidisciplinary team to build scientific infrastructure, develop natural-product therapeutics, create global partnerships, mobilize capital, and establish a new model for responsible biotechnology development from Gabon.

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