Richard J. Hawkins joined us as Director in December 2007 and was appointed to serve as Chairman in January 2018. Mr. Hawkins is currently the CEO of Lumos Pharma, Inc., a start-up pharma company. Mr. Hawkins founded LabNow Inc., a diagnostic device company developing rapid, point-of-care, physician office-based diagnostic testing systems, and served Chairman and CEO from 2004 until October 2009. Mr. Hawkins previously founded and guided the growth of Pharmaco, a clinical drug development services company where he served as Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. He is a founder of id2, a pharmaceutical and biotechnology research management company, Sensus Drug Development Corp., a biotechnology company that was sold to Pfizer, and Covance Biotechnology Services, and served as Chairman of the Board for LoopOne, Inc., a shipping and logistics software company. Mr. Hawkins holds a B.S. in biology from Ohio University.

An van Es-Johansson joined our Board in January 2020. Dr. van Es-Johansson currently serves as a Senior Advisor for AlzeCure Pharma, a Swedish pharmaceutical company with a primary focus on Alzheimer’s disease, where she is responsible for regulatory, clinical development, clinical operations, and pharmacovigilance.  From 2005-2018, Dr. van Es-Johansson served in a range of executive roles of increasing responsibility at Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (Sobi), an international specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on rare diseases.  Dr. van Es-Johansson has leadership experience within large pharmaceutical and smaller biotechnology companies, including Roche, Eli Lilly, Active Biotech, and BioStratum.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors at Lumos Pharma, Medivir AB, Agendia Inc., and Savara Inc.  Dr. van Es-Johansson received a M.D. from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Greg Petersen has served on our Board since February 2020. Mr. Petersen is an accomplished Executive and Board member with more than 25 years of strategy, operations, finance and compliance leadership experience. His 10 years of Board of Directors experience includes his current roles as Compensation Committee Chair and Audit Committee member of PROS Holdings and as Audit Committee Chair of Mohawk Group Holdings. Mr. Petersen has served as Executive Vice Chairman of Diligent Corporation and as Chief Financial Officer of Lombardi Software and Activant Solutions (now part of Epicor). He has also held executive positions at American Airlines and other corporations. Mr. Petersen has a BA from Boston College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Robert Lenk joined our Board in March 2020. Dr. Lenk has over 35 years as pharmaceutical executive with deep expertise in nanoparticle drug development and drug formulation. He is currently President of Lenk Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceuticals development consultant to multinational corporations and startups. Previously, Dr. Lenk has been Chief Scientific Officer of MediVector, Inc., President of the NanoWorks division of Luna Innovations, Inc., President & CEO of Therapeutics 2000, Inc. and Vice President of Research & Development at Argus Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Lenk was also Cofounder of The Liposome Co. and a Staff Fellow of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has a PhD and BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and resides in Danville, Virginia.

Howard Clowes joined our Board in March 2020. A retired partner after nearly four decades at DLA Piper, a leading law firm, Mr. Clowes has served in leadership positions in the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice, advising public and private companies on securities law, financing, Mergers and Acquisition and general corporate matters. At the law firm of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP, which was acquired by DLA Piper, he served as a partner in the Corporate Group, member of the Executive Committee and managing partner of the Transactions Group. Mr. Clowes has a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (where he now serves as a Lecturer), and a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. A resident of the Bay Area, Mr. Clowes served as President, Board Member and Chair of the Strategic Planning and Search Committee of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley.