Wayne B. Weisman

Chairman of the Board

Wayne B. Weisman has been a director of the Company since 2019. Since 2007, Mr. Weisman has been a director of the corporate general partner of the common general partner of SCP Vitalife. He has also served as a managing member of SCP Vitalife Management Company, LLC, which by contract provides certain management services to the common general partner of SCP Vitalife. He has also led the activities of SCP Private Equity Partners II, L.P., a venture capital fund of which he and Mr. Churchill are principals, in the life sciences area; these activities include investments in the United States and Israel. He has also led several other technology investments for SCP Private Equity Partners II, L.P. He has been a member of the investment committee of the Vitalife Life Sciences funds since their inception in 2002 and has worked closely with these funds since then. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Weisman was executive vice president and member of the board of directors of a public drug delivery technology company. In addition, he also operated a management and financial advisory firm focusing on the reorganization and turnaround of troubled companies and began his career practicing reorganization law at a large Philadelphia law firm.

Mr. Weisman possesses extensive experience in venture capital investing, particularly in the life sciences area. Mr. Weisman serves on the board of Societal CDMO, ReWalk Robotics Ltd. and on a number of private company boards. He is the vice chairman of the board of trustees of Young Scholars Charter School, where he served as chairman from 2010 to 2017. He is also an advisory board member of Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures, the venture forum of Temple University. Mr. Weisman holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

William L. Ashton

Director

William L. Ashton has served as a director since 2019. Since the beginning of 2013, Mr. Ashton has been a principal at Harrison Consulting Group, Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical consulting firm. From August 2009 to June 2013, Mr. Ashton was the senior vice president of external affairs reporting to the president and an assistant professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From August 2005 to August 2009, Mr. Ashton was the founding Dean of the Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy. Mr. Ashton has 29 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. From 1989 to 2005, Mr. Ashton held a number of positions at Amgen Inc., a biotechnology company, including vice president of U.S. sales and vice president of commercial and government affairs. Mr. Ashton currently serves on the boards of directors of Societal CDMO and Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and has served on the boards of Galena Biopharma, Inc. and Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He is also a member of the board of directors of the National Osteoporosis Foundation and Friends of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Mr. Ashton holds a B.S., Education, from the California University of Pennsylvania and an M.A., Education, from the University of Pittsburgh.

Arnold Baskies, M.D.

Director

Dr. Arnold Baskies has served as director since August 2020. From 2007 to 2010, Dr. Baskies served as the Chief Medical Officer for the American Cancer Society of New York and New Jersey and was elected as President of the American Cancer Society for New York and New Jersey in September 2010. In 2016, he served as Science Officer to the ACS National Board, and in 2017, he served as Chairman of the National Board of Directors of ACS. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Commission on Cancer and the Global Breast Cancer Initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr. Baskies is the recipient of major awards in cancer research from the Society of Surgical Oncology, the American Radium Society, the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, and the American Cancer Society. In addition,  he is a recipient of the St. George Medal from ACS, the recipient of the EPIC Award from the NJ Institute of Nursing and the Silver Chalice Award from the American Cancer Society, for his role in providing leadership in cancer prevention and treatment for the citizens of New Jersey. Dr. Baskies has maintained a medical practice in southern New Jersey for 44 years and is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Rowan School of Medicine and Jefferson School of Nursing. He holds major state and national leadership roles in cancer prevention and treatment. He has personally treated over 5,000 patients with various types of cancer and performed over 10,000 surgical procedures.

Dr. Baskies received his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, at Boston University. He graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine, and completed his surgical residency at Boston Medical Center and his fellowship in surgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute.

Winston J. Churchill

Director

Winston J. Churchill has been a director of the Company since November 2019. Since 2007, Mr. Churchill has been a director of the corporate general partner of the common general partner of SCP Vitalife. He has also served as a managing member of SCP Vitalife Management Company, LLC, which by contract provides certain management services to the common general partner of SCP Vitalife. Since 1993, Mr. Churchill has  served as the President of CIP Capital Management, Inc., the general partner of CIP Capital, L.P., an SBA-licensed private equity fund. Prior to that, Mr. Churchill was a managing partner of Bradford Associates, which managed private equity funds on behalf of Bessemer Securities Corporation and Bessemer Trust Company. From 1967 to 1983, Mr. Churchill practiced law at the Philadelphia firm of Saul Ewing, LLP, where he served as Chairman of the Banking and Financial Institutions Department, Chairman of the Finance Committee and was a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Churchill is a director of Societal CDMO, Inc., Innovative Solutions and Support, Inc., Amkor Technology, Inc. and various SCP Vitalife portfolio companies. He also previously served as a director of Griffin Industrial Realty from April 1997 until May 2016. In addition, he serves as a director on the boards of several charities and as a trustee of educational institutions including the Gesu School and Young Scholars Charter School, Inc., as a Trustee Fellow of Fordham University, and Trustee Emeritus of Georgetown University. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Churchill served as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System.

He was awarded a B.S. in Physics, summa cum laude, from Fordham University followed by an M.A. in Economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Andrew Drechsler

Director

Andrew Drechsler has served as director since August 2020. Mr. Drechsler has also served as a Senior Finance Executive at BioDrex since April 2017. From September 2017 to December 2021, Mr. Drechsler served as Chief Financial Officer of Provention Bio, a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company dedicated to intercepting and preventing immune-mediated diseases. From 2012 to March 2017, Mr. Drechsler was the Chief Financial Officer at Insmed Incorporated, a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with orphan pulmonary diseases. Prior to that, Mr. Drechsler was Chief Financial Officer at VaxInnate, a privately held biotechnology company and Chief Financial Officer for Valera Pharmaceuticals, Inc..

Mr. Drechsler received a B.S. in Accountancy from Villanova University, graduating Magna Cum Laude. He obtained his Certified Public Accountant license in the State of New Jersey and actively raises funds for and awareness of type one diabetes via the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Gerri Henwood

President & Chief Executive Officer

Gerri Henwood has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company since 2019. Ms. Henwood previously served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Societal CDMO, Inc. (f/k/a Recro Pharma, Inc.), which she founded in 2008, until 2020. From 2006 to 2013, Ms. Henwood served as the President of Malvern Consulting Group, Inc., or MCG, a pharmaceutical incubator and consulting firm. From 1999 to 2006, Ms. Henwood was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., or Auxilium, a biopharmaceutical company she founded in late 1999. From 1985 to 1999, Ms. Henwood was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of IBAH, Inc., or IBAH, a contract research organization. Ms. Henwood began her career with Smith Kline & French, now part of GlaxoSmithKline plc. She rose through the ranks to be a brand manager, then the head of Regulatory and Medical Affairs for the U.S. business and then to the position of Group Director—Marketing in the International Pharmaceutical Division.

Ms. Henwood previously served on the board of directors of Societal CDMO from 2008 until January 2022, and Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a position she held from May 2015 until the first half of 2020. Ms. Henwood also served on the compensation committee of Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She served on the board of directors of Alkermes, Inc. and its successor company, Alkermes, plc, a global biopharmaceutical company, from 2003 until March 2015, and on the board of directors of MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from 2004 until its acquisition by Allergan, Inc. in March 2013.

Ms. Henwood holds a B.S. in Biology from Neumann University.

Yong Chan Kim, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Yong Chan Kim has been a director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Company since July 2023.  Dr. Kim has served as the CEO and Director of TeraImmune, Inc. since April 2019.  Dr. Kim served as Vice President of Research of TeraImmune, LLC from April 2017 until March 2019.  He also previously served as Research Assistant Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences from May 2015 until March 2018.  Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Chungnam National University and completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.