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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 an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Natural Science from the University of Cambridge. Our Board believes that Dr. Dixon’s extensive experience in corporate management, including as a director of multiple public companies, as well as her academic and professional expertise, provides her with the qualifications and skills to serve as a director of our Company.Tamara A. FavoritoTamara A. Favorito has served as a director and chair of the Audit Committee of our Company since August 2021 and as our Board Chair since May 2023. Ms. Favorito has more than 30 years of life sciences industry experience, including 20 years as a chief financial officer. Her extensive experience includes leading multiple private and public financings and M&A transactions as well as leading public companies’ finance, investor relations, human resources, administration and managed care functions. She currently serves as a board member and audit committee chair of Artelo Biosciences, Inc., a publicly-traded clinical development stage company, since March 2021. Ms. Favorito served on the board of directors of Kintara Therapeutics, Inc. from 2021 until its merger with TuHURA Biosciences, Inc. in October 2024, and on the board of directors of Beacon Discovery, Inc. from 2018 until its acquisition by Eurofins Scientific in March 2021. Ms. Favorito was interim chief financial officer of Immunic, Inc., a publicly-traded clinical-stage drug development company in 2019. She served as chief financial officer of Signal Genetics, Inc. (now Viridian Therapeutics, Inc.), a publicly-traded molecular diagnostics company, from 2014 to 2017, HemaQuest Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a venture-backed clinical-stage drug development company, from 2010 to 2014, and Favrille, Inc. (now MMR Global, Inc.), a publicly-traded clinical-stage drug development company, from 2001 to 2009. Earlier in her career, she spent eight years in public accounting with Deloitte & Touche LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Ms. Favorito is a certified public accountant (inactive). She received an MBA, emphasis in Finance, from Georgia State University, and a27
BBA, emphasis in Accounting, from Valdosta State University. Our Board believes that Ms. Favorito’s extensive experience in corporate management, finance and life science as chief financial officer of multiple public companies provides her with the qualifications and skills to serve as