Dr. McMinn has served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chair of our Board since December 2023, and as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Neurogene OpCo since January 2018. Prior to founding Neurogene, she served as Chief Business and Strategy Officer of Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: ICPT, until its acquisition by Alfasigma S.p.A.), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the treatment of patients with serious liver disease, from April 2014 to December 2017. Prior to her operational experience, Dr. McMinn was an award-winning biotechnology analyst, with 13 years of experience at firms such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Cowen and Company and Piper Jaffray. Dr. McMinn has served on the board of directors of Everyone Medicines since 2021, and prior to that the non-profit Everyone Foundation from 2019 to 2021. Dr. McMinn received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from The Scripps Research Institute, and was awarded a Post-Doctoral Miller Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. We believe Dr. McMinn is qualified to serve on our Board because of her in-depth knowledge of the Company, her operational and senior management experience, and her extensive healthcare investment research in the biotechnology industry.