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Zhengbin (Bing) Yao, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2021. Dr. Yao brings more than 20 years' experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. Dr. Yao is currently our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman and a co-founder of ArriVent BioPharma. Previously, Dr. Yao served as Chief Executive Officer of Viela Bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on autoimmune and severe inflammatory diseases, from February 2018 and as Chairman of its board of directors from January 2019, until it was acquired by Horizon Therapeutics plc for $3.1 billion in March 2021. From October 2010 to February 2018, Dr. Yao served as Senior Vice President, Head of Respiratory, Inflammation, Autoimmune iMED at MedImmune. Dr. Yao also served as Senior Vice President, Head of Immuno-Oncology Franchise, of AstraZeneca plc. Prior to his tenure at MedImmune and AstraZeneca, Dr. Yao served as Head of PTL for Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Neuroscience, and Metabolic Disease of Genentech. Previously, Dr. Yao was Vice President and Head of Research of Tanox, Inc., before it was acquired by Genentech in 2007. Dr. Yao serves on the board of directors of Alumis Inc., and Visen Pharmaceuticals, which are public biotechnology companies, as well as a private biotechnology company. Dr. Yao received his M.S. in Immunology from Anhui Medical University in Anhui, China and his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Iowa.

Stuart Lutzker, M.D., Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2021. Dr. Lutzker is our co-founder and President, Research and Development, and has served in this role since February 2022. Previously, Dr. Lutzker served as our Chief Medical Officer from June 2021 to February 2022. Dr. Lutzker joined us after a productive 17-year career at Genentech from April 2004 to March 2021, where he was Vice President and Head of Oncology, Early Clinical Development for 12 years and oversaw the early clinical phase development of Kadcyla, Polivy, Venclexta, Cotellic Lunsumio and Tecentriq, among others. Dr. Lutzker received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Columbia University, and his M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Columbia University.

Winston Kung, MBA has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since January 2024. From December 2017 to January 2024, Mr. Kung served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at PMV Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: PMVP), a precision oncology company. From April 2013 to November 2017, Mr. Kung worked at Celgene Corporation, a global biopharmaceutical company, where he held multiple positions, including Vice President of Business Development and Global Alliances, and Chief Business Officer at Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Celgene Corporation). At Celgene, Mr. Kung led the formation of a strategic long-range plan for the company, along with overseeing multiple transactions and a team that managed the company's alliance portfolio of over 100 collaborations, equity investments and company integrations. Prior to working at Celgene, Mr. Kung worked at Citigroup Inc. from June 2010 to April 2013 in its Global Healthcare Investment Banking group and at Lehman Brothers (which was subsequently acquired by Barclays Capital Inc.) from May 2007 to June 2010 in its Global Mergers and Acquisitions Group. At Citigroup and Barclays, Mr. Kung worked on various transactions including public and private financings, mergers and acquisitions, spin-outs and other financial advisory engagements. From August 2004 to May 2007, Mr. Kung worked at Amgen Inc. (Nasdaq: AMGN), a global biopharmaceutical company, as a co-founder of the Alliance Management group, and served as the deal lead on multiple acquisitions as part of the Corporate Development group. Mr. Kung also worked at Genentech, Inc., a biotechnology company (acquired by Roche Group in March 2009), from November 1999 to September 2002 as part of the Business and Corporate Development group. Since September 2022, Mr. Kung has served on the board of directors of Janux Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: JANX) and Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRBP), biopharmaceutical companies. Mr. Kung previously served on the board of directors of Alliqua BioMedicial Inc. (Nasdaq: ALQA), a provider of advanced wound care products, and GNS Healthcare, Inc., a private, healthcare artificial intelligence company. Mr. Kung received a B.A. in Biology and International Relations from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Merdad Parsey, M.D., Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2025. From November 2019 to April 2025, Dr. Parsey served as executive vice president and chief medical officer at Gilead Sciences, Inc. Dr. Parsey joined Genentech, Inc. in 2006, initially leading the respiratory group and subsequently overseeing early clinical development for the immunology, tissue growth and repair portfolio in 2008. He served as chief executive officer of 3-V Biosciences, now Sagimet Biosciences, from 2010 to 2015, and he served on their board of directors from 2010 until 2025. From October 2015 to November 2019, Dr. Parsey served as senior vice president of early clinical development at Genentech, Inc. Dr. Parsey received his B.S. in microbiology and biochemistry at the University of Maryland, his M.D. and Ph.D. in immunology at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. He completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford University and his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of Colorado. He was assistant professor of medicine and director of critical care medicine at the NYU School of Medicine and has been in clinical development roles at Merck & Co., Inc., Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (f/k/a Sepracor, Inc.). Dr. Parsey served on the board of directors of Arcus Biosciences, Inc. (NYSE: RCUS) from July 2020 until February 2025 and has served on the Board of Directors of Ardelyx, Inc. since 2025.

Kristine Peterson has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2024 and currently serves as our Lead Independent Director, a position she held since April 2025. Ms. Peterson has served as Chief Executive Officer for Valeritas, Inc. from 2009 to 2016. Prior to joining Valeritas, Ms. Peterson was Company Group Chair of the biotechnology group at Johnson & Johnson from 2006 until 2009, where she was responsible for Commercial, Research & Development, and biologics manufacturing for oncology, immunology and cell therapy, and was Executive Vice President of Pharmaceutical Group Strategic Marketing from 2004 to 2006. Previously, she served as President and Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations for Biovail Corporation. Earlier in her career, Ms. Peterson spent 20 years at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in a variety of senior roles across multiple disease areas, including running their cardiovascular and metabolics business unit. Ms. Peterson has served on the boards of directors of Enanta Pharmaceuticals since September 2017 and Immunocore Holdings since November 2017. She previously served on the boards of directors for ImmunoGen, Inc., Amarin Corporation plc, EyePoint Pharmaceuticals and Paratek Pharmaceuticals. Additionally, she previously served as a senior advisor to the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association and a Member of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Board. Ms. Peterson has a B.S. and an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mr. Christian W. Nolet, C.P.A. has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2023. Mr. Nolet has over 45 years of experience in various leadership roles in the audit profession and in the life sciences industry. Mr. Nolet was an audit partner at Ernst & Young LLP (EY), a professional services firm, from November 2001 to June 2019. While at EY, Mr. Nolet led the West EY Life Sciences Industry Group. He served on both the Executive Committee and Finance Committee (Chair) of the California Life Sciences industry association (and its predecessors) from 2000 to February 2024. Mr. Nolet was also a member of the Finance & Investment Committee and Emerging Companies Section of BIO (the Biotechnology Innovation Organization). Prior to EY, Mr. Nolet was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1991 to 2001. Mr. Nolet has served on the board of directors of Jasper Therapeutics, Inc. since September 2021. Mr. Nolet previously served on the board of directors of Revance Therapeutics, Inc. from July 2019 to February 2025 and was on the board of directors of PolarityTE, Inc. from April 2020 to January 2023. He previously served on the board of directors of Ambrx Biopharma Inc. from January 2021 to November 2021. Mr. Nolet also served on the board of directors of Viela Bio, Inc. from August 2019 until it was acquired in March 2021. Mr. Nolet holds a B.S. in Accounting from San Diego State University and is a retired Certified Public Accountant in California.

Robin LaChapelle is one of our co-founders and has served as our Chief Operating Officer since August 2023. Previously, Ms. LaChapelle was our Chief Administrative Officer since May 2021. Ms. LaChapelle served as the Executive Director at RLT Consulting, a human resources consulting firm, from July 2019 to May 2021, and as Vice President, Human Relations, at AstraZeneca plc from May 2015 to June 2019, where she oversaw a team of over 50 employees. Earlier in her career, Ms. LaChapelle served as VP, Global Total Rewards for Lockhead Martin, EVP, Human Resources at CapitalOne Bank and SVP, Global Marketing, Commercial Bank at Bank of America. Ms. LaChapelle currently serves as a director of PayPal Digital, a subsidiary of PayPal, Inc. Ms. LaChapelle received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Indiana University, Bloomington, and her M.A. degree in psychology from Loyola University Chicago.

James Kastenmayer, J.D., Ph.D. has served as our General Counsel, Compliance Officer, and Secretary since September 2023. Previously, Mr. Kastenmayer served as the General Counsel, Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc., from July 2021 to March 2023, and additionally, the interim Chief Executive Officer of Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc., from August through November 2022. Prior to Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc., Mr. Kastenmayer served as General Counsel, Compliance Officer, and Secretary at Viela Bio, Inc. from January 2020 to March 2021. Prior to Viela Bio, he served in roles of increasing responsibility at AstraZeneca, from May 2012 to December 2019. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kastenmayer served as IP counsel at MedImmune, and as an associate at an IP boutique firm. Mr. Kastenmayer earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, a Ph.D. in biochemistry and cell and molecular biology from Michigan State University and a B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia and is a registered patent attorney.