Max Wallace has served as a member of our Board since August 2021 and previously served as a member of the Legacy Humacyte board of directors from June 2005 to August 2021. Mr. Wallace has served as the President of Round Table Research, a cancer research company, since March 2023. Mr. Wallace served as Chief Executive Officer of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, or ABC , a not-for-profit corporation seeking to drive research and treatments for brain tumors from August 2008 to December 2019. Prior to joining ABC , Mr. Wallace served as the Chief Executive Officer of TheraLogics, Inc. an early-stage biopharmaceutical company, and as President of Trimeris, Inc., a formerly public biopharmaceutical company founded by Mr. Wallace that created and brought to market a new class of drugs for the treatment of HIV, AIDS and other viral diseases and is now a part of Synageva BioPharma Corp. Mr. Wallace also founded and developed several other biopharmaceutical companies, including Cogent Neuroscience, Sphinx Pharmaceuticals Corporation, now a part of Lilly, and SARCO, Inc., now a part of PPD/Pharmaco, and co-founded and served as President of the North Carolina Bioscience Organization, the biotechnology industry s trade organization in North Carolina. Mr. Wallace holds a B.A. in English and Political Science from Duke University and a J.D. from the University of Florida. We believe that Mr. Wallace is qualified to serve as a director based on the depth of his experience in the biotechnology industry, including his service in executive roles at multiple emerging biopharmaceutical companies and his oversight of the development and commercialization of innovative technologies.