Cynata Therapeutics Ltd (ASX: CYP) Share Price and News

Mr Wotton has joined the Board in June 2016 and was Non-Executive Chair from 28 February 2017 until 18 August 2020. Dr Wotton was the Chief Executive Officer of Obsidian Therapeutics, a clinical stage TIL therapy company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to this, he was the Founding President and CEO of Sigilon Inc. Prior to joining Antares, Dr Wotton was the CEO of Topigen Pharmaceuticals and prior to Topigen, he was the Global Head of Business Development of SkyePharma PLC. Dr Wotton held senior level positions at Eurand International BV, Penwest Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Laboratories and Merck, Sharp and Dohme. Dr Wotton is a member of the Board and Governance Committee of Vericel Corporation (NASDQA: VCEL), a US company developing autologous cellular therapies, Chairman of Kytopen Corp., an MIT startup focused on non-viral transduction technology, independent director at Dimension Inx, a biomaterials platform company and Founder of AvengeBio, a clinical stage immune oncology company focused on ovarian and peritoneal cancers. He was a member of the board of Veloxis Pharmaceuticals AS and Chairman of the Compensation Committee, until its acquisition by Asahi Kasai in February 2020 in a $1.3 billion all cash transaction. He is also past Chairman of the Emerging Companies Advisory Board of BIOTEC Canada. In 2014, he was named New Jersey EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Life Sciences.

Mr Webse has over 28 years company secretarial experience and is the managing director of Platinum Corporate Secretariat Pty Ltd, a company specialising in providing company secretarial, corporate governance and corporate advisory services.

Mr Brooke has joined the Board in May 2019 as Non-Executive Director and appointed Chair on 18 August 2020.Dr Brooke co-founded GBS Venture Partners in 1996 and has more than 30 years' venture capital experience. He was formerly President of Medvest Inc.a US-based early stage venture capital group he founded with Johnson & Johnson.Dr Brooke's experience includes company formation and acquisitions as well as public listings on NYSE, NASDAQ and ASX exchanges. From 2009 until 2015,Dr Brooke was an independent director of the Victoria Workcover Authority.

Ms Rolfe joined the Board in September 2022. Ms Rolfe brings more than two decades of legal, governance and management experience across various sectors to the Board. In recent years, Ms Rolfe has transitioned to professional non-executive director roles. Ms Rolfe's last executive role was as General Counsel & Company Secretary for S&P/ASX100 Link Group. Prior to that, Ms Rolfe established governance consultancy, Company Matters, where she served at the helm for over a decade and during a period where stakeholders greatly intensified their expectations of Australian companies' governance practices. Previously, she was a legal counsel and company secretary at Qantas Airways and a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons).

Mr Maher has joined the Board in June 2020. Dr Maher adds global biopharmaceutical and commercialisation capability to the Cynata board, with over 23 years' experience with CSL Limited. CSL is one of the developers of biologic pharmaceutical products and has a market capitalisation of A$130 billion. Dr Maher has had career in pharmaceutical product development, most recently as the former Vice President of R&D and Medical Affairs at CSL Behring Australia where he was responsible for the development of drug products from initiation through to clinical development and to commercialisation. Dr Maher undertook medical training, qualified as a specialist haematologist.

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