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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 served in a variety of finance, medical cost analysis and managed care provider contracting roles with Aetna, Inc., a publicly-held provider of healthcare benefits. Mr. Clifton is a certified public accountant in the state of Florida and received his BBA in Accounting and MBA from the University of North Florida, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Corporate Finance from Harvard University. Adrian Quartel, M.D., FFPM Adrian Quartel, M.D., FFPM, has served as our Chief Medical Officer since January 2024, and previously served as the chief medical officer of Acer Therapeutics from February 2022 until it was acquired by Zevra at the end of 2023. At Acer, Dr. Quartel played a key role in guiding clinical development, clinical operations, medical affairs and regulatory compliance. Prior to that, he was the chief medical officer at Adamas 46

Pharmaceuticals, a company focused on drug development for neurological diseases, from September 2020 until February 2022. From June 2017 until September 2020, Dr. Quartel served as the group vice president of global medical affairs at BioMarin Pharmaceuticals Inc., where he spearheaded the launch of six treatments for rare diseases or genetic disorders.

Before his tenure at BioMarin, Dr. Quartel oversaw clinical development and held senior medical leadership positions at Chiltern, a specialist contract research organization, from September 2006 to July 2007, at Astellas Pharma, Inc., a global life sciences company, from January 2004 until September 2006, and at ICON Clinical Research., a healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization, from August 2001 to January 2004. In addition, Dr. Quartel worked as a clinical research fellow at UCLA Cedar Sinai and as a resident in cardio-thoracic surgery at Erasmus University Medical Center. He holds an M.D. from Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam, and has a postgraduate specialization in pharmaceutical medicine from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine in London. Dr. Quartel is board certified by the General Medical Council (GMC) in pharmaceutical medicine in the United Kingdom.

Joshua Schafer, M.S., MBA

Joshua Schafer has served as our Chief Commercial Officer since January 2023. From January 2023 to March 2025, in addition to serving as our Chief Commercial Officer, he served as our Executive Vice President, Business Development. Mr. Schafer has over 25 years of pharmaceutical commercial, new product