Company: ZVRA
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0001193125-25-068746
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Company: ZEVRA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: PREC14A
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 since February 2024. Mr. Anderson is a 35-year veteran of the biopharma industry, playing a leading role in high-growth organizations for much of his career. Mr. Anderson served as chief executive officer and director of SwanBio Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company, from September 2019 until his semi-retirement in October 2023; subsequently, he resigned his board directorship in March 2024. Prior to that, he served as the chief commercial strategy officer of Sage Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from 2014 to 2018. From 2004 to 2014, Mr. Anderson was a senior executive with Shire Pharmaceuticals Group in a number of operational and strategic roles in both rare diseases and specialty pharmaceuticals. Earlier in his career, Mr. Anderson was with Johnson & Johnson companies, Janssen and McNeil Pharmaceutical, in a number of leadership, sales, marketing and business information roles. Mr. Anderson also served as a director of private companies, ExpressCells Inc., from 2019 to 2023, and CEO Trust, from 2018 to 2021. Mr. Anderson received his

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MBA from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business Administration. He received his BS in civil engineering from the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering at Lehigh University. Our Board believes that Mr. Anderson’s extensive experience in the biopharma industry, including as senior executive and director of multiple biopharmaceutical companies, qualifies him to serve on the Board as a director of our Company.

Neil F. McFarlane

Neil F. McFarlane has served as our president and Chief Executive Officer, and as a director of our Company, since October 2023. Mr. McFarlane served as the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from September 2019 until November 2021, when Adamas was acquired by Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From August 2016 to May 2019, Mr. McFarlane served as the chief operating officer of Retrophin, Inc. (now Travere Therapeutics, Inc.), a public biopharmaceutical company. From 2011 to 2016, he held positions of increasing responsibility with UCB, Inc., Genzyme Corporation (now Sanofi) and Sangstat Medical Corporation (acquired by Genzyme). Mr.