Company: ARWR
Filing Date: 2025-01-29
Form Type: ARS
Source: 0001628280-25-002866
Chunk: 227

Company: ARROWHEAD PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-01-29
Form: ARS
Chunk 227
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 of Illinois at Chicago Hospital. He was also awarded his JD from the University of Arizona. James Hamilton, Chief of Discovery & Translational Medicine, joined the Company in 2014. He is responsible for target discovery as well as non-clinical and early clinical development. Previously, Dr. Hamilton served as Vice President, Clinical Development, responsible for clinical strategy, clinical trial design and execution including early translational and mid-stage development of all Arrowhead programs. He is experienced in multiple disease areas including virology, hepatology, cardiovascular disease, rare disease and oncology. Dr. Hamilton led the clinical development of ARO-HBV (now JNJ-3989), which was licensed to Janssen Pharmaceuticals. In parallel, Dr. Hamilton served as Head of Corporate Development and led Arrowhead’s in-licensing transaction of Novartis’s RNAi assets, as well as the out-licensing of ARO-LPA (now AMG890) to Amgen and the ARO-AAT partnership with Takeda. Dr. Hamilton started his employment at Arrowhead as Medical Director and Head of Corporate development. He holds both MD and MBA degrees from The Ohio State University. He is a licensed physician and completed residency training with board certification in emergency medicine. Table of Contents 2025 PROXY STATEMENT Equity Compensation Plan Information 64

Review and Approval of Related-Party Transactions Our Board has adopted written policies and procedures for the review and approval of related-party transactions and has delegated to the Audit Committee the authority to review and approve the material terms of any proposed related- party transactions. To the extent that a proposed related-party transaction may involve a non-employee director or nominee for election as a director and may be material to a consideration of that person’s independence, the matter may also be considered by the other disinterested directors. Pursuant to our Corporate Code of Conduct and our Nomination Committee Charter, each of our officers, directors and employees must disclose related-party transactions to our Board. In order to avoid conflicts of interest, our executive officers and directors may not acquire any ownership interest in any supplier, customer or competitor (other than nominal amounts of stock in publicly traded companies), enter into any consulting or employment relationship with any customer, supplier or competitor, or engage in any outside business activity that is competitive with any of our businesses, without first disclosing the proposed transaction. After the proposed transaction has been disclosed, a determination will be made by our Board or Audit Committee as to what course to follow, depending on the nature or