Company: TVRD
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: S-4/A
Source: 0001104659-25-013053
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Company: Tvardi Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: S-4/A
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1, Dr. Chen served as the Director of Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing at SIGA Technology, Inc., a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company, where he oversaw both drug substance and drug product CMC activities for early-stage development and commercialization in the United States and European Union. Dr. Chen received a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Memphis, Tennessee and B.S. and M.S degrees in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University, China.Non-Employee Directors

#### Non-Employee Directors

#### Sujal Shah
has served as a member of Tvardi’s board of directors since January 2021 and as Chairman of the board of directors since March 2024. Mr. Shah served as President and Chief Executive Officer at CymaBay Therapeutics from April 2017 until the sale of the company to Gilead Sciences for $4.3 billion in March 2024. Mr. Shah joined CymaBay as Chief Financial Officer in 2012, taking the company public in 2013. Prior to CymaBay, Mr. Shah was a healthcare investment banker for Citigroup from 2010 to 2012 and Credit Suisse First Boston from 2004 to 2010, where he was responsible for managing client relationships and executing strategic and financing related transactions for clients focused on life sciences. Mr. Shah also serves as a director at Opthea Limited, an Australia based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Shah received an M.B.A. from the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business, where he currently serves on the Business Board of Advisors, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. We believe Mr. Shah’s extensive executive experience managing the operational and financial issues of biopharmaceutical companies provide him with the qualifications and skills to serve on the combined company board of directors.

#### Wallace Hall
has served as a member of Tvardi’s board of directors since June 2018. Mr. Hall cofounded and has served as the President of Wetland Partners, LP, which is primarily engaged in wetland mitigation banking and oil & gas investment from February 1999 to present. Mr. Hall also co-founded BioMatrix Partners, an investment partnership focused on public and private biotechnology companies, where he has served as Limited Partner from October 2013 to present. From February 2011 to February 2017, Mr. Hall served on the University of Texas System Board of Regents. Mr. Hall