Company: DMAC
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009696
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Company: DiaMedica Therapeutics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
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. O’Connor held several positions in senior leadership, including Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Bracco Diagnostics Inc., a diagnostic imaging company; Assistant General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Consultant for NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a pharmaceutical company; Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for ImClone Systems Incorporated, a biopharmaceutical company; and General Counsel at PharmaNet (formerly inVentiv Health, now Syneos Health), a clinical research company. He previously served as a member of the board of directors of Seelos Therapeutics Inc. from January 2019 to May 2024 and as Vice Chairman and member of the board of trustees of BioNJ from March 2016 to November 2021. In October 2017, Mr. O’Connor was appointed to the New Jersey Biotechnology Task Force by its Governor. Prior to his career in biotechnology and drug development, Mr. O’Connor was a former criminal prosecutor in Somerset County, New Jersey. Mr. O’Connor holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law and previously served as a Trusted Advisor to its Dean. He graduated from the United States Marines Corps Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Marines, attaining the rank of Captain. Mr. O’Connor volunteered to serve and was deployed to Saudi Arabia in advance of and during Operation Desert Shield.

We believe that the breadth and depth of Mr. O’Connor’s experience in the biopharmaceutical industry and his recent experience as Chief Executive Officer of several biotech companies, as well as other positions in senior management, enable him to make valuable contributions to the Board of Directors.

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Charles Semba, M.D. has served as a member of the Board of Directors since July 2021. Dr. Semba has over 20 years of drug-development experience in public and venture-funded biotechnology companies. Since June 2020, Dr. Semba has served as the Chief Medical Officer of Eluminex Biosciences, an ophthalmology-focused biotechnology company. From June 2016 to March 2020, Dr. Semba served as the Chief Medical Officer of Graybug Vision, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative medicines for the treatment of chronic diseases of the retina and optic nerve, and from June 2014 to June 2016, Dr. Semba served as the Chief Medical Officer of ForS