SEPTERNA INC (SEPN)
Sector: Health Care
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Health Care
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Director information for SEPN
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEPN | Chief Executive Officer and Director | 60 | [] | [] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Jeffrey Finer, M.D., Ph.D., has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since November 2021 and served as our President from December 2019 to August 2025. Since 2016, Dr. Finer has served as a Venture Partner at Third Rock Ventures, LLC, a leading biotech venture and company-formation fund, where he was involved in the founding and launching of multiple biotech companies. Prior to joining us, Dr. Finer held positions as interim Chief Technology Officer at Ambys Medicines, Inc., a privately held cell and gene therapy company, from 2017 to May 2019, and at Maze Therapeutics, Inc., a small-molecule precision medicine company, from 2016 to June 2019. Earlier in his career, Dr. Finer held numerous research and development leadership positions, including as Director, Drug Discovery Technologies at Cytokinetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYTK), a publicly traded small-molecule biopharmaceutical company, from 1998 to 2007, as Vice President, Discovery at Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. (acquired by Amgen, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN)), a protein therapeutics company, from January 2007 to August 2011, and as Vice President, Molecular & Cellular Biology and later as Vice President, Research Technology at Theravance Biopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: TBPH), a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on multiple therapeutic areas, from 2011 to 2016. Dr. Finer holds B.S. degrees in each of Chemistry and Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a M.D. degree and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Finer completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Stanford University, and residency training in Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School. We believe that Dr. Finer is qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his extensive experience as a senior executive in the pharmaceutical industry, his drug development expertise, his research work for both medical and academic institutions, his public company experience, as well as his knowledge of our company based on his role as our President and Chief Executive Officer.