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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 development and M&A experience. From December 2020 to November 2022, he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Autoimmune and Rare Disease business at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, he served as Mallinckrodt’s chief strategy and business officer from September 2019 to December 2020 and senior vice president of business development and general manager from January 2018 to September 2019. Prior to Mallinckrodt, Mr. Schafer served as vice president and oncology therapeutic area head, global marketing and strategy at Astellas Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for building the company’s global oncology franchise, and also held senior roles at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting), G. D. Searle & Co. (later acquired by Pfizer) and Cognia Corporation. Mr. Schafer currently serves as a member of the board of Pharnext SA and Shuttle Pharmaceuticals. He received his BA in Biology and German at the University of Notre Dame, and both an MS in Biotechnology and an MBA from Northwestern University.

Rahsaan W. Thompson

Rahsaan W. Thompson has served as our Chief Legal Officer, Secretary and Compliance Officer since June 2024. Mr. Thompson has more than 25 years of experience as a business leader and attorney in the biotech industry. He previously served as the chief legal officer at Lyell Immunopharma, a publicly-traded and clinical-stage biotech corporation. Prior to his role at Lyell, he was the executive vice

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president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer at Gritstone bio, a publicly-traded, clinical-stage biotech company. Before that, he served as general counsel at Opiant Pharmaceuticals and Actelion Pharmaceuticals US. Earlier in his career, Mr. Thompson worked in general and corporate counsel roles at Quarles & Brady, Abraxis Bioscience and McKesson Corporation, as well as being Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Thompson currently serves on the board of trustees for the Oakland Museum of California and previously served on the board of the American Kidney Fund. He received his JD from Hofstra University School of Law and his B.Sc. from Southern Methodist University. He has bar admissions in the States of Illinois and Pennsylvania.

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The following table sets forth the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of