Mr. Madhavan Balachandran has been a member of our Board since September 2024. Mr. Balachandran was Chief Operating Officer of Nutcracker Therapeutics, a developer of mRNA therapeutics, from September 2020 to March 2022. Previously, Mr. Balachandran was Executive Vice President, Operations of Amgen Inc., a global biotechnology company, from August 2012 until July 2016 and retired as an Executive Vice President in January 2017. Mr. Balachandran joined Amgen in 1997 as Associate Director, Engineering. He became Director, Engineering in 1998, and, from 1999 to 2001, he held the position of Senior Director, Engineering and Operations Services before moving to the position of Vice President, Information Systems from 2001 to 2002. Thereafter, Mr. Balachandran was Vice President, Puerto Rico Operations from May 2002 to February 2007. From February 2007 to October 2007, Mr. Balachandran was Vice President, Site Operations, and from October 2007 to August 2012, he held the position of Senior Vice President, Manufacturing. Prior to his tenure at Amgen, Mr. Balachandran held leadership positions at Copley Pharmaceuticals, now a part of Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd., and Burroughs Wellcome Company, a predecessor before mergers of GlaxoSmithKline plc. Mr. Balachandran currently serves as a director of Incog, Inc., A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. and ADRX, Inc., each a private company. He also serves as a non-executive director of uniQure, N.V., a Nasdaq-listed life sciences company and as a director of Stevanato Group S.p.A, a NYSE-listed, public global provider of drug containment, drug delivery and diagnostic solutions to the biotechnology and life sciences industries. Mr. Balachandran previously served as a director of Catalent, Inc., a NYSE-listed biopharmaceutical company, from May 2017 to January 2024. Mr. Balachandran holds a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from The State University of New York at Buffalo, a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an M.B.A. from East Carolina University. We believe Mr. Balachandran is qualified to serve as a director due to his extensive experience in the biotechnology industry, particularly his expertise in commercial development.