19 EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION Executive Officers The following table sets forth the names, ages and positions of our executive officers as of April 29, 2022: Name Age Position with the Company Teofilo Raad 52 Chief Executive Officer and Director Michelle S. Siegert. 61 Vice President, Finance Peter Ludlum 66 Interim Chief Financial Officer (as of April 18, 2022) Margaret Wasilewski 64 Chief Medical Officer (as of March 1, 2022) Please see biography of Mr. Raad on page 7 of this Proxy Statement. Michelle S. Siegert. Ms. Siegert has served as the Vice President, Finance since November 2019. She is responsible for the corporate finance function. Since Ms. Siegert joined the company in 2010, she has progressed through numerous roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as Vice President, Corporate Controller. She began her finance career at W.R. Grace & Co. and has completed more than 25 years of financial, transactional, and operational experience in both private and public companies. Ms. Siegert holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management with a concentration in Accounting from Simmons University. Peter Ludlum. Mr. Ludlum has served as our interim Chief Financial Officer, principal accounting officer and principal financial officer since April 2022, and since December 2021, he has served as our Strategic Advisor – Finance, both pursuant to a November 30, 2021 consulting agreement between the Company and Danforth. Mr. Ludlum has served as an employee with Danforth Advisors, LLC (“Danforth”), a provider of strategic and operational finance and accounting for life science companies, since December 2021. Prior to Danforth, Mr. Ludlum has worked as an independent financial consultant. Previously, Mr. Ludlum served in several executive roles at Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. (n/k/a EMI Holding, Inc.), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company, including Co-President, Chief Business Officer, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, during his tenure fromApril 2012 until May 2017. Mr. Ludlum previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Energy and Power Solutions, Inc., an energy intelligence company, from April 2008 to December 2011. He received a B.S. in Business and Economics with a major in accounting from Lehigh University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from California State University, Fullerton. Margaret Wasilewski, M.D. Dr. Wasilewski brings extensive experience across different stages of pharmaceutical drug development in various therapeutic areas. She leverages over 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical drug development. Dr. Wasilewski held various leadership roles at Eli Lilly and Company, Targanta Therapeutics, Shire, and Summit Therapeutics. As President of ID Remedies LLC, Dr. Wasilewski has provided scientific, medical, and clinical development consultation to various biopharmaceutical companies. Her clinical development experience includes bacterial and viral infections, sepsis, neurology, and rare disease. Dr. Wasilewski received a medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and is board certified in Internal Medicine and completed fellowships in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of California-San Francisco. Dr. Wasilewski received an MBA from Indiana University, Kelly School of Business; a master’s degree in Nutrition from the University of California-Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Rutgers University.
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