Company: ACHV
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059297
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Company: ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 independent Chairman of the Board. Mr. King has over 30 years of executive leadership and board experience in the life sciences industry. Mr. King currently also serves on the board of directors of Kinaset Therapeutics, Inc. and Concentric Analgesics, Inc., both privately held biotechnology

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companies. Mr. King served on the board of directors of Satsuma Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, from September 2017 to June 2023, when it was acquired by Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories, Ltd. Mr. King served as a member of the board of directors of VIVUS, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, from May 2017 to December 2020, and served as interim Chief Executive Officer from December 2017 to April 2018 and interim President from April 2018 to May 2018. Previously, Mr. King served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, from June 2003 until it was acquired by Grupo Ferrer in August 2016. From October 2015 to August 2016, Mr. King also served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From September 2002 to April 2003 Mr. King served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Cognetix, Inc., a biopharmaceutical development-stage company. From January 1994 to February 2001, Mr. King held various senior executive positions at Anesta Corporation, a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company, including President and Chief Operating Officer from January 1995 to January 1997 and President and Chief Executive Officer from January 1997 to October 2000. Mr. King received a B.A. in chemistry from McPherson College and an M.B.A. from the University of Kansas Graduate School of Business. The determination was made that Mr. King should serve on our Board of Directors due to his extensive leadership experience in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry, including experience with small and large development stage pharmaceutical companies, and his experience on the boards of directors of both public and private companies.

Bridget Martell, M.A., M.D.,has been an Operating Partner at Two Bear Capital since 2024 and the Founder and Managing Partner of her consultancy practice, BAM Consultants, which she started in 2013. She previously served