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Krish S. Krishnan has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board since our inception. Mr. Krishnan previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Intrexon Corporation (NYSE: XON) from 2011 to 2016, and as Chief Executive Officer and President of Pinnacle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2009 to 2011. He also served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of New River Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2004 to 2007 (previously listed on Nasdaq prior to its acquisition by Shire plc in 2007) and was a member of its Board of Directors from 2003 until 2007. He served as a Senior Managing Director of Third Security, LLC between 2001 and 2008 and as a board member of Biotie Therapies Oyj (BTH1V: Helsinki) between 2008 and 2009. He served as Managing Principal at Ariba before joining Third Security and served with the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, where he advised Fortune 50 companies on business strategy. Mr. Krishnan started his career as an engineer with E.I. Dupont de Nemours in Wilmington, Delaware. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Engineering from the University of Toledo, and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Krishnan is the spouse of Suma Krishnan, our Founder and President, R&D.

Suma M. Krishnan is the Founder and President, R&D and has served as a director since our inception. Prior to being named as our President, R&D in February 2022, Ms. Krishnan served as our Chief Operating Officer. Ms. Krishnan has over two decades of experience in drug development. She previously served as Senior Vice President and head of the Human Therapeutics Division, as well as Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Intrexon Corporation from 2012 to 2016. She previously served as Senior Vice President, Product Development at Pinnacle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2009 to 2011. Prior to joining Pinnacle, Ms. Krishnan was Vice President, Product Development at New River Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2002 until its acquisition by Shire plc in 2007. Prior to New River, Ms. Krishnan held roles of increasing responsibility at Pfizer, Inc.; the Weinberg Group, a pharmaceutical and environmental consulting firm; and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Ms. Krishnan received an M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Villanova University, an M.B.A. from Institute of Management and Research (India) and an undergraduate degree in Organic Chemistry from Ferguson University (India). Ms. Krishnan is the spouse of Krish S. Krishnan, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Kathryn A. Romano has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer since January 2020. Most recently, Ms. Romano held the position of Corporate Controller at CNX Resources Corporation from April 2018 to December 2019. Prior to joining CNX, she was the Corporate Controller of Rice Energy from January 2013 until the company was acquired by EQT in November 2017, staying on to assist the company through the transition until March 2018. Prior to joining Rice Energy, Ms. Romano worked in a variety of accounting and auditing roles at Black Box Corporation and Deloitte. Ms. Romano is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Penn State University.

Daniel S. Janney has served as a member of our Board since November 2016 and is our Lead Independent Director, chairman of the Compensation Committee, and a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Janney is a Managing Director at Alta Partners, a life sciences venture capital firm, which he joined in 1996. Prior to joining Alta, from 1993 to 1996, he was a Vice President in Montgomery Securities' healthcare and biotechnology investment banking group, focusing on life sciences companies. Mr. Janney is a director of several companies, including, Be Biopharma, DEM BioPharma, Edgewood Oncology, Lassen Therapeutics, and Progentos Therapeutics. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dino A. Rossi has served as a member of our Board since June 2017 and is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Rossi was previously employed by Balchem Corporation, where he served as Executive Chairman from September 2015 to December 2016, Chief Executive Officer and President from October 1997 to April 2015, Chief Financial Officer from April 1996 to January 2004, Treasurer from June 1996 to June 2003, and was a member of the board of directors from October 1998 to December 2015. Prior to Balchem, Mr. Rossi held senior finance and administration positions with Norit Americas Inc. and Oakite Products Inc. Mr. Rossi is also a director of Polytek Development Corporation. Previously, Mr. Rossi served on the boards of directors of Chroma Color Concentrates, Fenzi Holdings SPV S.p.A., Elite Comfort Solutions and Scientific Learning Corporation. Mr. Rossi holds a BS in Accounting from West Virginia University.

Julian S. Gangolli has served as a member of our Board since March 2019 and is Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee and the Audit Committee. He was President, North America of Greenwich Biosciences, a GW Pharmaceuticals PLC company, from May 2015 to May 2019. Prior to joining GW Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Gangolli spent 17 years at Allergan, Inc., including serving as President of the North American Pharmaceutical division from January 2004 to May 2015. Prior to Allergan, Mr. Gangolli served in sales and marketing positions at VIVUS, Inc., Syntex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Ortho-Cilag Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Mr. Gangolli is a director of Outlook Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OTLK). Mr. Gangolli received a BSc (Honors) degree in Applied Chemistry and Business Studies from Kingston University in England.

E. Rand Sutherland, MD has served as a member of our Board since January 2022 and is a member of the Audit Committee and the Commercial Advisory Committee. Since April 2024, Dr. Sutherland has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Upstream Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: UPB), a biotechnology company focused on developing therapies for respiratory and inflammatory diseases. From May 2022 until June 2023, Dr. Sutherland served as Chief Executive Officer of Seeker Biologics, Inc., a privately held biotechnology company. Dr. Sutherland served as President of Translate Bio, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company, from March 2021 until the company's acquisition by Sanofi in September 2021. From February 2014 to March 2021, Dr. Sutherland served in various research and development and medical affairs roles at Sanofi, most recently as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Medical Affairs for Sanofi Genzyme from July 2018 to March 2021. Previously, Dr. Sutherland was Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at National Jewish Health in Denver, where he treated patients and led an NIH-funded translational research program in severe asthma. Dr. Sutherland previously served on the board of directors of Allakos Inc. (Nasdaq: ALLK) from August 2023 until May 2024. Dr. Sutherland holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health, and an M.D. from the University of Chicago. Dr. Sutherland completed his post-doctoral training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also served as Chief Medical Resident, followed by a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado.

Catherine Mazzacco has served as a member of our Board since March 2023 and is a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Commercial Advisory Committee. Ms. Mazzacco was CEO & President of LEO Pharma, a privately owned global pharmaceutical company, and a member of the Board of Directors from August 2019 to November 2021. Prior to this role, Ms. Mazzacco was Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, Life Sciences Division at GE HealthCare, a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics and life sciences company, from February 2018 to May 2019. Before joining GE HealthCare, Ms. Mazzacco spent over 25 years at Abbott Laboratories, a major multinational publicly traded healthcare company where she held several global senior operational and strategic leadership roles, including, most recently, Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, Abbott Vision Division from 2011 to 2017. Ms. Mazzacco is a Member of the Supervisory Board and Remuneration & Nomination Committee of Servier SAS, a privately owned global pharmaceutical company. Ms. Mazzacco is also a member of the Board of Directors, Audit Committee and Chair of the Commercial Strategy Committee of Sight Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGHT), an eyecare technology company. Ms. Mazzacco holds a BSE, Engineering, Option Biotechnology from the University of Compiegne in France.

Christopher Mason, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRSB, FMedSci, has served as a member of our Board since January 2021 and is Chair of the Science and Technology Committee. Dr. Mason is the Founder of Sun Vectors, Inc. and has served as a director and its Chief Executive Officer since August 2022. Dr. Mason is the Founder of AVROBIO, Inc. and served as its Chief Scientific Officer from July 2015 to June 2022. Dr. Mason has been on the faculty of the Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, University College London since 1999, including Full Professor of Regenerative Medicine Bioprocessing (2008-2017), and Full Professor of Cell and Gene Therapy since 2017. Dr. Mason is the founder of London Regenerative Medicine Network Ltd. and has served as a director since February 2008. He co-founded OriBiotech Ltd. and has served as a nonexecutive director from September 2015 to December 2025. Dr. Mason has also served as a director of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) from October 2021 to October 2024, and of Papillon Therapeutics Inc. and the Foundation for mRNA Medicines since July 2024 and September 2024, respectively. He previously served as founder and a director of Stem Cell Translation Ltd. from October 2006 to March 2018 and served as a trustee of the British Neurological Research Trust from May 2012 to May 2016 and the UK Stem Cell Foundation from September 2010 to May 2016. Dr. Mason earned an MBBS (MD) from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals (now King's College London), a BSc (Hons) in Clinical Sciences from the Imperial College London (St. Mary's Hospital Medical School / Royal Postgraduate Medical School), and a PhD from Advanced Center for Biochemical Engineering, University College London. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Royal Society of Biology.

John C. Thomas has served as our Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary since March 2026, and previously served as our Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary from 2021 to March 2026. Prior to joining the Company in 2021, Mr. Thomas was a partner at The Webb Law Firm and previously a founder and managing partner of Beck & Thomas, P.C., a boutique intellectual property law firm. Mr. Thomas has extensive experience representing a broad range of companies, including Fortune 500 companies, with significant experience in the pharmaceutical industry, in intellectual property matters and related litigation. He has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in Pittsburgh, PA for Intellectual Property Law (litigation) (2016-2022), Patent Law and Trademark Law (2017-2022 ), and Trademark Lawyer of the Year (2018). He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a J.D., cum laude, from Duquesne University Kline School of Law.

Laurent Goux has served as our Executive Vice President, Head of International since March 2026. He joined the Company in 2021 as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Europe, where he was responsible for building and leading the company's European operations. Prior to joining Krystal, Mr. Goux spent nearly two decades at Galderma in a variety of leadership roles across global marketing and market access and earlier regional and local general management. Earlier in his career, Mr. Goux worked at Arthur Andersen. He holds engineering and master's degrees in chemistry from the University of Bordeaux and a Master's degree in Strategy and Management of International Business from ESSEC Business School in Paris.