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Enrique Conterno joined FibroGen as CEO in 2020. Enrique Conterno is a senior vice president of Eli Lilly and Company and president of Lilly Diabetes. Enrique joined Lilly in 1992 and has held a range of roles in sales, finance, marketing, business development, and general management. He served as marketing and sales director for Lilly’s Peru and Brazil affiliates, as executive marketing director for the intercontinental region and Japan, and as general manager for Lilly Mexico. Enrique was vice president of the company’s U.S. neuroscience business unit and vice president for health care professional markets. He served as president of Lilly’s U.S. affiliate until he was named president of Lilly Diabetes in 2009. Enrique earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University. He serves on the board of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and as treasurer for the Board of Directors of the Indy Chamber of Commerce. He is also on the Board of Visitors for Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

Ken Siegel has over 25 years of experience as an executive and senior leader of major corporations. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer at SenesTech and as a member of the Board of Directors since 2019. Prior to joining SenesTech, Siegel served as President at Diamond Resorts International Inc. Previously, he was Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of Starwood Hotels & Resorts. Siegel’s experience includes all facets of corporate leadership including operations, strategy, finance, and administrative functions. An instrumental member of the Starwood leadership team, Siegel was intimately involved in Starwood’s emergence as an industry leader before its acquisition by Marriott International in 2016. Siegel played a pivotal role in Starwood’s transition to an asset-light business and was the architect of transactions that drove both top- and bottom-line benefits through industry-leading initiatives.

John Simard is a Chairman/President/CEO/Founder at XBiotech USA Inc, VP/Founder at MANNKIND CORP, and Board Member at MANNKIND CORP. He attended University of Toronto.

Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of XOMA (NASDAQ: XOMA). Joined XOMA in 2009 and was appointed to the CEO role in late 2016. In early 2017, Mr. Neal led XOMA through a dramatic strategic pivot taking the company from a traditional R&D heavy biotech company and transforming it to a successful royalty monetization and aggregation company. In the years prior to becoming CEO of XOMA, he was instrumental in leading the company’s licensing and business development activities focused on maximizing the value of XOMA’s foundational antibody IP and knowhow. In addition to his role at XOMA, Mr. Neal currently serves as a Director at Leading Biosciences, a clinical stage biotech company based in Carlsbad, CA. Mr. Neal has more than twenty years of experience in the biotechnology industry encompassing roles in R&D, business development, financing and general management. Prior to XOMA, Mr. Neal was Acting Chief Executive Officer of Entelos Inc., a leading bio-simulation company that acquired Iconix Biosciences, a privately held company where Mr. Neal was Chief Executive Officer. At Iconix, Mr. Neal established multi-year collaborations with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Labs (now AbbVie), Eli Lilly and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. From 1999-2002, he was Executive Vice President of Incyte Genomics, leading global commercial activities with pharmaceutical company collaborators and partners including Pfizer, Aventis, GSK and others. Earlier in his career, he was an executive with Monsanto Company in positions of increasing responsibility. Mr. Neal earned his B.S. in Biology and his M.S. in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the University of Manitoba, Canada, and holds an MBA degree from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.