Mr. Narachi previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of CODA Biotherapeutics, Inc., a private biotherapeutics company, from August 2018 through October 2022 and served as a director of CODA Biotherapeutics until the company s sale in March 2023. Between March 2009 and July 2018, Mr. Narachi served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company. Orexigen filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in March 2018. Previously, Mr. Narachi served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Ren Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a private biotechnology company, from November 2006 to March 2009. In 2004, Mr. Narachi retired as Vice President of Amgen Inc., a leading therapeutics company, where he served as General Manager of Amgen s Anemia Business from 1999 to 2003, until his retirement in 2004. Mr. Narachi joined Amgen in 1984 and held various senior positions throughout the organization over a 20-year career including global development leader for Neupogen/Neulasta, Vice President of development and representative director for Amgen Japan; head of corporate strategic planning; Chief Operations Officer of Amgen Colorado; and vice president, licensing and business development. Mr. Narachi previously served on the board of directors of BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, as a member of the board of directors of PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and as the chairman of the board of directors of Celladon Corporation, a publicly traded gene therapy company, from October 2013 to March 2016, and as a director of AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company, from November 2006 to April 2014. Mr. Narachi holds a B. S. in Biology and an M. A. in Biology and Genetics from the University of California, Davis. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.