Company: CERO
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001213900-25-036075
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Company: CERO THERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 10-K/A
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 investment bank and securities firm from 2010 to 2012. From 2001 to August 2009, he served as Managing Director and Senior Partner at Cohen & Company, where he helped launch Alesco Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AFN), where he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Investment Officer from 2006 to 2009. From 1999 to 2000, he served as Chief Financial Officer for TRM Corporation (NASDAQ: TRMM), a consumer and financial services company. In 2000, Mr. Patel co-founded iATMglobal.net, a middleware software business where he served as Chief Executive Officer and which was sold to NCR Corporation in 2001. He served as Vice President of the West Coast Region for Sirrom Capital Corporation, a mezzanine finance fund, from 1998 to 1999. Prior to this he was in the business services group at Robertson Stephens, an investment banking firm, from 1997 to 1998 and served as a strategy consultant in the energy group at Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture plc) from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Patel served on the Board of Visitors of Duke University School of Law from 2011 to 2023 where he was a Senior Lecturing Fellow. Mr. Patel received a Juris Doctor with honors and Master of Business Administration from Duke University and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics from Trinity University. Mr. Patel was selected to serve on our board of directors based on his extensive investment, leadership and operational experience. 3 Executive Officers The following table identifies our current executive officers who are not directors, and sets forth their current positions at the Company and their ages as of March 15, 2025:

| Name                   |     | Age |     | Title                                       |     | Officer Since |
| Chris Ehrlich          |     |  55 |     | Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Director |     |          2024 |
| Andrew “Al” Kucharchuk |     |  44 |     | Chief Financial Officer                     |     |          2024 |
| Kristen Pierce, Ph.D.  |     |  55 |     | Chief Development Officer                   |     |          2024 |

You should refer above for information about our Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Chris Ehrlich. Biographical information for our other executive officers as of March 15, 2025, is set forth below. Andrew “