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R. John Fletcher

Director at Optinose

Mr. Fletcher has served as a director of our company since April 2022. In 1983, Mr. Fletcher founded Fletcher Spaght, Inc., a consulting firm that provides growth-focused strategy assistance to client companies, and since its founding has served as its Chief Executive Officer. Since 2001, Mr. Fletcher has also served as the Managing Partner of Fletcher Spaght Ventures, a venture capital fund. Mr. Fletcher’s current and past board experience includes both public and private companies. Mr. Fletcher currently serves as the board chairman of Vyant Bio, Inc., and also serves on its Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Mr. Fletcher also serves as the board chairman of Koru Medical and Clearpoint Neuro, Inc., as well as privately-held Metabolon. Mr. Fletcher previously served on the boards of The Spectranetics Corporation, Autoimmune, Inc., Axcelis Technologies, Inc., Fischer Imaging Corp., Panacos Pharmaceuticals Inc., NMT Medical Inc., and Quick Study Radiology Inc., all of which are public companies, and on the board of GlycoFi, Inc., a private company. In addition, Mr. Fletcher has served on the boards of many academic and non-profit institutions. Mr. Fletcher worked on the $2 billion acquisition of Spectranetics by Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Royal Philips) and the $400 million acquisition of GlycoFi by Merck & Co., Inc., and received the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Director of the Year Award in 2018 specifically for his work at Spectranetics. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Corporate Collaboration Council at the Thayer School of Engineering/Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and serves on the Board of Advisors of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Whitehead Institute at MIT. Mr. Fletcher is a graduate of Southern Illinois University (MBA), Central Michigan University (Master’s Degree in International Finance), and George Washington University (BBA in Marketing) and was an instructor in International Business and a PhD candidate at the Wharton School of Business. He also served as a Captain and jet pilot in the United States Air Force.


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