Company: ZVRA
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEFC14A
Source: 0001193125-25-086293
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Company: ZEVRA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEFC14A
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 international subsidiary. He previously was an equity member of Lutz & Company, a regional accounting firm, from 1996 to 2009. Mr. Watton is a certified public accountant and received a BS in Finance and Accounting from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Our Board believes that Mr. Watton’s senior leadership roles in the medical services industry combined with his expertise in accounting make him well qualified to serve as a director of our Company.

CLASS III DIRECTORS CONTINUING IN OFFICE UNTIL THE 2027 ANNUAL MEETING

Thomas D. Anderson

Thomas D. Anderson has served as a director of our Company since August 2023 and as chair of the compensation committee of the Board 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,