Kenneth Bate

Kenneth Bate has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2014, and as Chairman since February 2016. From May 2009 until January 2012, Mr. Bate was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Archemix, a privately held biotechnology company. From January 2007 to April 2009, Mr. Bate was President and Chief Executive Officer of NitroMed, a public pharmaceutical company. From March 2006 until January 2007, Mr. Bate was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of NitroMed. From January 2005 to March 2006, Mr. Bate was employed at JSB-Partners, a banking and advisory services firm for biopharmaceutical and life sciences companies that he co-founded. From 2002 to January 2005, Mr. Bate was head of commercial operations and Chief Financial Officer at Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Bate served as a member of the Board of Directors of Cubist Pharmaceuticals, a public biopharmaceutical company, from June 2003 to January 2015 and was its non-executive Chair from March 2011 to January 2015. Mr. Bate is a director of five other public biopharmaceutical companies, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Genocea Biosciences, Epizyme Pharmaceuticals, Vanda Pharmaceuticals and Madrigal Pharmaceuticals. During the last five years, Mr. Bate also served as a director of NitroMed and Coley Pharmaceutical Group. He holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in chemistry from Williams College.