John P. Schmid has served as a member of our Board since June 2015. Mr. Schmid served as Chief Financial Officer of Auspex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from September 2013 to June 2015. Before joining Auspex Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Schmid co-founded Trius Therapeutics, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, where he served as the Chief Financial Officer from June 2004 until its merger with Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in September 2013. Before he joined Trius Therapeutics, Mr. Schmid served as the Chief Financial Officer at Gene Formatics, Inc., a private biotechnology company, from 1998 to 2003, and at Endonetics, a private medical device company, from 1995 to 1998. Mr. Schmid currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the publicly traded company Design Therapeutics Inc., a pharmaceutical company, First Tracks Biotherapeutics Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, Bright Peak Therapeutics, a private biotechnology company, and BlossomHill Therapeutics, Inc., a private pharmaceutical company. In the last five years, Mr. Schmid has previously served on the boards of directors of Helix Acquisition Corp. and Helix Acquisition Corp. II, both special purpose acquisition companies, Neos Therapeutics, Poseida Therapeutics, Inc., and Xeris Pharmaceuticals, all pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Schmid received his M.B.A. from the University of San Diego and his B.A. from Wesleyan University. Our Board believes that Mr. Schmid s extensive industry experience and executive positions at multiple biopharmaceutical companies qualify him to serve on our Board.