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Hamza Suri is a President & CEO at AnaptysBio Inc.

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).

Michael Morrissey is a President/CEO at EXELIXIS, INC.; Board Member at EXELIXIS, INC.; and Board Member at XW LABORATORIES INC and is based in Danville, California. He has experience at Schering AG and has worked as VP:Discovery Research at Berlex Biosciences; Senior Scientist at Novartis; and Senior VP:Discovery at EXELIXIS, INC.. Michael studied at Harvard University and University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

Prior to joining Genocea,Chip co-founded and served as Chief Business Officer of Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: VNDA). Before that, Chip was a Principal at Care Capital, LLC, a venture capital firm investing in biopharmaceutical companies, after serving in a variety of commercial roles at SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline). Chip holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rick Winningham has served as a member of our Board of Directors since May 2010. Since 2001, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Theravance, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, and in April 2010, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors. From 1997 to 2001, he served as President of Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology/Immunology/Oncology Therapeutics Network and, from 2000 to 2001, as President of Global Marketing. He is a member of the board of directors of the California Healthcare Institute (CHI) and is also a member of the External Advisory Board for the College of Business and Administration and Business Hall of Fame at Southern Illinois University.Rick Winningham holds an M.B.A. from Texas Christian University and a B.S. from Southern Illinois University.

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.

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

Armin Spura is a Chief Executive Officer at Crown bioscience.