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Richard J. Barry

Richard J. Barry has served as a member of our Board since June 2015. He also serves as a member of our audit committee and chair of our nominating and corporate governance committee and compensation committee.

Mr. Barry is a long-time stockholder of the Company. He was a Partner and Advisory Board member of the San Diego Padres from 2009 to 2021. Mr. Barry served as a director of Elcelyx Therapeutics Inc., a pharmaceutical company, from 2013 to 2019, and was a Managing Member of GSM Fund, LLC, a fund established for the sole purpose of investing in Elcelyx. He was previously an Advisory Board member for the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University and served as a director of Cluster Wireless, a San Diego-based software company. Mr. Barry has served as a director of Cassava Sciences, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company, since 2021, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in September 2024. Mr. Barry served as Executive Chairman of Cassava Sciences, Inc. beginning July 2024 until his appointment as Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Barry has extensive experience in the investment management business. He was a founding member of Eastbourne Capital Management LLC, a large equity hedge fund investing in a variety of industries, including health care, and served as a Managing General Partner and Portfolio Manager from 1999 to its close in 2010. Prior to Eastbourne, Mr. Barry was a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director of Robertson Stephens Investment Management. Mr. Barry also spent over 13 years in various roles in institutional equity and investment management firms, including Lazard Freres, Legg Mason and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Barry was on the board of directors of MiMedx Group Inc., a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company developing, manufacturing and marketing regenerative biologics utilizing human placental allografts, from June 2019 to August 2020.

Mr. Barry holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from Pennsylvania State University.