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Clive Richardson is a Board Member at Akari Therapeutics PLC. He has worked as Head:Operations at Volution Immuno Pharmaceuticals SA, Board Member at CLINISYS SOLUTIONS LIMITED, and Interim CEO/COO at Akari Therapeutics PLC. Clive works or has worked as Head:Equities Research at Investec. He attended Trinity College Oxford.

Gregory A. Demopulos, M.D. is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors since June 1994. Prior to founding Omeros, Dr. Demopulos completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Stanford University and his fellowship training at Duke University. Dr. Demopulos received his M.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine and his B.S. from Stanford University.

Dr. Peltz founded PTC Therapeutics in 1998 and has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors since the company’s inception. Under his leadership, PTC has grown from a research organization to a publicly traded, global commercial organization with multiple approved products and a foundation of strong technology platforms that continues to drive a robust discovery pipeline for patients with rare disorders. Prior to founding PTC, Dr. Peltz was a Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University. Dr. Peltz is a recognized scientific leader in RNA biology in the area of post-transcriptional control processes involving mRNA turnover and translation, with more than 30 years of research and over 100 publications in this area. Dr. Peltz has received a number of business and scientific awards. Notably, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science in 2010. He was recognized as PharmaVoice’s 100 Most Inspiring People in 2009 and received the Dr. Sol J. Barer Award for Vision Innovation and Leadership in 2014. Dr. Peltz received a Ph.D. from the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin.

Steven A. Shallcross has over 25 years of comprehensive international, financial and operational experience in public and private companies covering life sciences, manufacturing, publishing, distribution and education. His experiences include equity and debt transactions that raised over $700 million in capital including two initial public offerings, extensive expertise in mergers and acquisitions, partnership and product development collaborations, strategic planning and budgeting, SEC reporting and systems integration. He was the Chairman of the Financial Executive Forum for the Technology Council of Maryland from 2002 to 2012, a former Board Member and President for the Washington, D.C. Chapter of Financial Executives International and is a steering committee member for the Baltimore-Washington Area Association of Bioscience Financial Officers (ABFO). In 2004, Mr. Shallcross was named Private Company CFO of the Year at the eighth annual Greater Washington Technology CFO Awards ceremony presented by the Tech Council of Maryland, the Northern Virginia Technology Council and Washington DC Technology Council. Mr. Shallcross received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. Mr. Shallcross is also a certified public accountant.

Robert Alexander has been involved in the formation and leadership of numerous biotechnology companies. Robert Alexander was CEO of ZS Pharma where he led the initial public offering and sale of ZS Pharma to AstraZeneca. Prior to ZS Pharma, Robert Alexander was a Director at Alta Partners, a venture capital firm, and was also Executive Chairman and interim CEO of SARcode Bioscience. During his time at Alta Partners, he led investments in SARcode Bioscience (acquired by Shire), Lumena Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Shire), ZS Pharma (acquired by AstraZeneca), and Allakos. Prior to Alta Partners, Robert was a Principal in MPM Capital’s BioEquities Fund. Robert Alexander joined MPM from Genentech, where he worked in the Business Development group. Robert Alexander is on the Board of Directors of Allena Pharmaceuticals. He holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor Science in Zoology from Miami University of Ohio.