Koven served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Sepracor Inc. (now Sunovion), a public specialty pharmaceutical company, from March 2007 until February 2010 when it was acquired by Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. Prior to joining Sepracor, Mr. Koven served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Kos Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public specialty pharmaceutical company, from August 2003 until its acquisition by Abbott Laboratories (now AbbVie) in December 2006. Mr. Koven began his career in the pharmaceutical industry first as an Assistant General Counsel and then as Associate General Counsel at Warner-Lambert Company from 1993 to 2000, followed by his role as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Lavipharm Corporation from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Koven also currently serves on the board of NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly-traded company, and has served as its chairperson since January 2022. From 1986 to 1992 he was a corporate associate at Cahill, Gordon & Reindel in New York. From 1992 to 1993 he served as Counsel, Corporate and Investment Division, at The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. Mr. Koven holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) Degree from Columbia University School of Law and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) Degree and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Dalhousie University. We believe that Mr. Koven’s extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry qualifies him to serve as a member of our board of directors.
Gregory D. Perry has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2018. Mr. Perry has served as Chief Financial Officer for Finch Therapeutics Group, Inc., a public therapeutics company focused on the microbiome, from June 2018 to April 30, 2022. Previously, he served as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Novelion Therapeutics Inc., or Novelion, a public biopharmaceutical company, from November 2016 to December 2017. Prior to this, Mr. Perry was Chief Financial Officer of Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company, from July 2015 until its merger with Novelion in November 2016. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial and Business Officer of Eleven Biotherapeutics, Inc., a public company, from January 2014 to June 2015. Before joining Eleven Biotherapeutics, Mr. Perry served as the Interim Chief Financial Officer of InVivo Therapeutics, a public biotechnology company, from September 2013 to December 2013, and prior to that he served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ImmunoGen, Inc., a public biotechnology company, from 2009 until he was promoted in 2011 to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a role he held until 2013. Before that, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Elixir Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Perry previously was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Transkaryotic Therapies. He has also held various financial leadership roles within PerkinElmer Inc., Domantis Ltd., Honeywell and General Electric. Since May 2016, Mr. Perry has served on the board of directors of Merus N.V., a public clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, including as Chair of its Audit Committee. From December 2011 to February 2016, Mr. Perry served on the board of directors of Ocata Therapeutics, a public biotechnology company, including as Chair of its Audit Committee and a member of its Compensation Committee, until it was acquired by Astellas Pharma Inc. Mr. Perry received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Amherst College. We believe that Mr. Perry’s experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, including his specific experience in financial leadership roles in biopharmaceutical companies, qualifies him to serve as a member of our board of directors.
Mark Iwicki is our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors. Please see “Executive Officers” above for biographical information regarding Mr. Iwicki.
Mark S. Blumenkranz, M.D., MMS, has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2021. Dr. Blumenkranz has served as the HJ Smead Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University since March 2019, the Co-Director of its Ophthalmic Innovation Program since 2016, and he previously served as Department Chair from 1997 until 2015. Dr. Blumenkranz played a leading role in the planning, fundraising and construction of the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University and served as its Director from its opening in September 2010 through June 2015. Dr. Blumenkranz previously served on the board of directors of Oculex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which was acquired by Allergan, Inc. in 2003, Macusight, an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company, acquired by Santen in 2010, Peak Surgical, Inc., an innovator in pulsed plasma mediated electro-surgery that was acquired by Medtronic, Inc. in 2011, and OptiMedica Corp. which was acquired by Abbott Medical Optics in 2013. In 2006, he co-founded Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc., and served as chairman of its board of directors through 2016. In 2011, he co-founded Oculeve, Inc., and served on its board directors through its acquisition by Allergan in August 2015. He was a founder and served on the board of directors of Verana Health, Inc., a digital medicine and health analytics company, from 2009 until 2020. He was the founding Chairman of Kedalion Therapeutics, an ophthalmic drug delivery company and served as its chief executive officer from September 2019 until June 2022, when it was acquired by Novartis AG. He also served on the board of directors of One Medical from 2019 until its acquisition by Amazon in