Mr. Frank has served as a Board member since February 2008. Mr. Frank has served as a member of the board of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since May 2025. Mr. Frank joined J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, an investment bank, in June 2008 and currently serves as Chairman of Global Healthcare Investment Banking. Mr. Frank had previously been the head of Bear Stearns Worldwide Health Care Investment Banking group in New York for 16 years and has provided general investment banking services to all types of healthcare companies. Specifically, Mr. Frank has led or played major roles in hundreds of mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions across the spectrum of deal structures. He has specialized in transactions involving pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies. Prior to joining Bear Stearns in 1993, Mr. Frank served for over ten years as an institutional investor, primarily at State Farm Insurance Company, where he focused on a multibillion-dollar life-sciences portfolio. Mr. Frank holds a B.S. from Illinois State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Mr. Frank also has been on the Executive Board of Frost Museum of Science since June 2020. We believe Mr. Frank's extensive knowledge of our industry and of finance and capital structure strengthen the Board's collective qualifications, skills, and experience.