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Jason Aryeh

Board Member at Ligand Pharmaceuticals

Jason M. Aryeh has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2006. Mr. Aryeh has more than twenty years of equity investment experience focused on the life sciences industry. He is the Founder and Managing General Partner of JALAA Equities, LP, a private investment fund focused on the biotechnology and medical device sectors. He has served in such a capacity since 1997. Mr. Aryeh currently serves on the board of directors of Anebulo Pharmaceuticals, a publicly-traded biotechnology company as well as on the boards of directors of Orchestra BioMed, and Cytovia Therapeutics, privately-held life sciences companies. Since 2006, Mr. Aryeh has served as chairman of the board, on the board of directors, or as a consultant to many other public and private life sciences companies and charitable foundations, including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Therapeutics board. Mr. Aryeh also serves as chairman of the board of directors of Rio Grande Solar and Rio Grande Renewables, LLC, a renewable energy company he co-founded in 2009 which serves the Americas. Mr. Aryeh earned a B.A. in economics, with honors, from Colgate University, and is a member of the Omnicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society in economics.