Steven D. Harr, M.D. has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2018 and has served as a member of our board of directors (Board) since October 2018. Dr. Harr was Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development at Juno Therapeutics, Inc. (Juno), a biopharmaceutical company developing cancer immunotherapies, from April 2014 until its acquisition by Celgene in March 2018. At Juno he was responsible for the overall financial and operational strategy of the company. Prior to Juno, Dr. Harr was Managing Director and Head of Biotechnology Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, a public multinational investment bank and financial services company, from May 2010 until April 2014, and prior to his investment banking role was the Lead Biotech Research Analyst and Co-head of Global Healthcare Research. Dr. Harr was a member of the board of directors of Loxo Oncology, a biopharmaceutical company, from November 2016 until its acquisition by Eli Lilly in February 2019. Dr. Harr was also a co-founder and member of the board of directors of JW Therapeutics, a cell therapy company in China, from February 2016 to June 2018. Dr. Harr has served on the board of Repertoire Immune Medicines, a biotechnology company, since March 2020. Dr. Harr obtained a B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross in 1993 and an M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1998. Dr. Harr was a resident in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco from 1998 to 2000. We believe Dr. Harr is qualified to serve on our Board because of his extensive management and leadership experience with biopharmaceutical and life sciences companies.
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Nathan Hardy has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since September 2018. From August 2017 to June 2018, Mr. Hardy served as the Vice President of Finance at Juno where he led the Business, Financial Planning and Treasury organizations. Mr. Hardy worked at Amgen Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from February 2007 to August 2017, and served in a variety of senior finance and operations leadership positions, culminating as the Executive Director and Head of Corporate Finance. At Juno and Amgen, Mr. Hardy led resource allocation activities across the organizations, helped drive large-scale business transformation at Amgen, and was part of various acquisitions and divestitures. Prior to Amgen, Mr. Hardy held various finance positions at General Electric Co. and Sprint Corporation, a public telecommunications company. Mr. Hardy obtained a B.S. in finance from the University of Utah and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
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