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Sanjay Shukla is a President/CEO at aTyr Pharma Inc, Advisor at Hiteks Solutions Inc., and Chief Medical Officer at Tesco and is based in San Diego, California. He has worked as Director, Investor & Media Relations at Aspreva Pharmaceuticals; Executive Director, Drug Development Operations at Aspreva Pharmaceuticals; and Consultant at aTyr Pharma Inc. Sanjay studied at Howard University College of Medicine between 1997 and 2001, University of Maryland Baltimore between 1993 and 1995, and University of Maryland between 1989 and 1993.

John prides himself as a builder of growing international businesses and organizations, successfully deploying both organic and M&A strategies in doing so. As President & CEO since June 2012, John has lead the turnaround and growth of Codexis Inc, the Nasdaq-listed protein engineering company based in Silicon Valley, California. Prior to Codexis, John worked in various business leadership roles for more than 22 years at Albemarle Corporation, a maker of highly engineered specialty chemicals. Spanning three successive multi-year chapters there, John lead the growth of the company’s largest, billion dollar plus global catalyst business, turned around a struggling half billion dollar fine chemicals business, and expanded and globalized Albemarle’s flame retardants business. A native of New York city, John and his family have lived widely across the USA, and also enjoyed an exciting three year assignment in Tokyo, Japan in the late 1990’s. John received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (now NYU) and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Outside of work, John proudly boasts about his 30 year marriage, two fabulous children, and four delightful grandchildren. John also has passionately applied himself to help solve the plight of the millions of patients suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome, and is the Board Chair for the leading patient lead organization for the cause in the US, the Solve ME/CFS Initiative (www.solvecfs.org).

Mr. George B. Kauffman is a Chairman Chief Executive Officer;Chief Investment Officier at RIGEL PHARMACEUTICALS INC and is based in United States.

Ron Squarer serves as Chairman and Executive Advisor at ADC Therapeutics SA (NYSE: ADCT) and directly supported the May 2020 company IPO. Mr. Squarer served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Array Biopharma Board of Directors from April 2012 through August 2019 when Pfizer Inc. acquired the company for $11.8 billion following the successful launch of the cancer treatments Braftovi® and Mektovi®. During his tenure, the company’s valuation grew ~40-fold through execution across research, development, and commercialization focused in the Oncology area. Array Biopharma’s research team is recognized for having invented Vitrakvi®/larotrectinib/TRK, Koselugo®/selumetinib/MEK, Tukysa®/tucatinib/HER2, ipatasertib/AKT, selpercatinib/RET, and MRTX849/KRAS-G12C among other molecules. Mr. Squarer has extensive commercial, development, research prioritization, and executive leadership expertise from a career spanning more than two decades in the biopharmaceutical industry. Before joining Array, Mr. Squarer held positions of increasing responsibility with Hospira, Inc., a global pharmaceutical and medical device company. In his last role there, as Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, he was responsible for delivering $4 billion in annual revenue. Mr. Squarer joined Hospira from Mayne Pharma, where he served as Senior Vice President, Global Corporate and Business Development when Mayne was sold to Hospira in 2007 for over $2 billion. Before Mayne Pharma, Mr. Squarer held leadership roles at both Pfizer, Inc. (including in Oncology), and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (now GlaxoSmithKline) in the U.S. and Europe and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Deciphera Inc. (NASDAQ: DCPH) and Travere Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: TVTX) Mr. Squarer earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

Steven L. Hoerter has served as our Senior Vice President, Commercial since August 2011. From 2010 to 2011, Steven Hoerter was General Manager and Management Center Head at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. for the Sub-Saharan Africa and Indian Ocean Region, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. From 2005 to 2010, Steven Hoerter held a variety of positions at Genentech, Inc., including serving on the senior leadership team for Genentech's BioOncology business as Senior Director, Pipeline Development and Commercial Operations. Prior to that he worked at Chiron Corporation and Eli Lilly and Company. During Steven Hoerter's 11-year career at Lilly, he held positions in sales, business development, marketing and business unit management in the US, Europe and Africa. Steven Hoerter has a B.A. in Russian and Political Science from Bucknell University, an M.B.A. from Tilburg University and a M.S. in Management from Purdue University.

Chang Wang Ph.D is the Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Owner, CEO, and Chairwoman at United Biomedical,Inc.

John Gill works at Tetralogic Pharmaceuticals and a CEO at Tetralogic Pharmaceuticals and is based in Devon, Pennsylvania. He has worked as Director and Chief Operating Officer at 3-DIMENSIONAL PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.. John attended Rutgers University—Camden between 1973 and 1975 and Transylvania University between 1969 and 1971.

Mr. Palay is one of our founders and has served as Chairman of the Board and as Chief Executive Officer since 2007. Mr. Palay previously served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of each of our predecessors from their founding until 2008. He also co-founded NimbleGen Systems, Inc., a molecular biology tools company, and served as its chairman of the board from 1999 to 2007 and as its chief executive officer from 1999 to 2000. Since their inception, Mr. Palay has served as a manager of the general partner or manager of each of the various Tactics II entities, which are private investment vehicles and are among our principal shareholders. He received a A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, an M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law. We selected Mr. Palay to serve on our board of directors due to his in-depth understanding of our business and operating experience with business startups.