Jerome Durso (58) has served as a member of our Board of Directors since February 2025. Mr. Durso became Chairman of the Board on August 12, 2025. Effective January 1, 2026, Mr. Durso was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Durso has over 30 years of experience in building and leading commercial and business operations in life sciences organizations both in the United States and abroad. He is a public company executive with long-term track record of success working at the intersection of strategy and operations driving results across diverse business models and therapeutic areas spanning rare disease, mass markets, specialty and hospital. Mr. Durso most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Intercept Pharmaceuticals, a company focused on rare and serious liver diseases. He built a rare disease franchise, transformed the corporate strategy and ultimately led the company through its successful acquisition by Alfasigma. Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Durso had served as Intercept s Chief Operating Officer from 2017 until his promotion in 2021. Prior to joining Intercept, Mr. Durso spent the majority of his career at Sanofi (Nasdaq: SNY) a global pharmaceutical company, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer of the Global Diabetes Division before departing in 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Durso was Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer of Sanofi s US pharmaceuticals business and also served in a number of commercial leadership roles of increasing responsibility in business unit and brand management, marketing and sales since he first joined Sanofi in 1993. Mr. Durso earned his BBA, Marketing from the University of Notre Dame. We believe that Mr. Durso s previous experience as a CEO in a public biotech company in liver disease as well as decades managing commercial pharmaceutical products in senior leadership roles at global pharmaceutical companies makes him exceptionally well qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors and to help guide our strategic growth as a late clinical stage biopharmaceutical company.