Mr. Kiritsy has served on our Board of Directors since January 2022. Mr. Kiritsy currently serves as audit and compensation committee chairs and on the board of directors of Pieris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PIRS). Since 2018, Mr. Kiritsy has been the managing member of Precision Kapital, LLC, a private investment and advisory firm that he founded. Prior to forming Precision Kapital, Mr. Kiritsy co-founded Arisaph Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Arisaph”) and served as Arisaph’s President and Chief Executive Officer until its exit in 2018. At Arisaph, Mr. Kiritsy evolved the drug discovery organization from an academic orientation to a clinical development enterprise, taking several cardiometabolic products into clinical development. Prior to Arisaph, Mr. Kiritsy served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer of Kos Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: KOSP). Mr. Kiritsy is a seasoned entrepreneur, who possesses more than 25 years of business and technical experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.  He received his A.B. in Biology from Bowdoin College and an MBA from Boston University.