Company: OCEA
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001493152-25-008279
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Company: Ocean Biomedical, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: DEF 14A
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 and its second largest investor-owned bank, from April 2013 until February 2022. Mr. Owens graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a B.S. in Political Science and earned a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas, where he was awarded a two-year fellowship. He is not standing for reelection.

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Elizabeth Ng, MBA, served as Ocean Biomedical’s Chief Executive Officer until 2024 and as a member of its board of directors since its inception. Ms. Ng served as Vice President/Head of Strategy and Business Development at Bioelectric Devices Inc. starting in 2018. Previously, she served as Senior Director of Portfolio Strategy at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. from 2010 to 2017 and prior to that, as Director Strategy Development Group at Merck & Co. Inc., and Director of Commercial/Portfolio Strategy at Gilead Sciences. Ms. Ng holds a B.S. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. We believe Ms. Ng is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of her executive experience with our company and her industry experience.

Amy Griffith, was appointed as a director in March 2024, concurrent with the completion of our IPO. Ms Griffith is Head of Government Relations & External Affairs for McCain Foods North America. She leads McCains engagement with policymakers in the United States and Canada. Previously, she led The Coca-Cola Company’s Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability team for the North American Operating Unit’s North Zone. Ms. Griffith was previously with Wells Fargo’s State & Local Government Relations team managing the Keystone Region encompassing Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia. She was recruited to Wells Fargo’s Government Relations and Public Policy team in 2019. In this role, Griffith leads Wells Fargo’s legislative and political agenda in her region and manages relationships with a state and local policymakers and community stakeholders. From 2008-2019, Griffith led government relations for sixteen states in the Eastern United States for TIAA for over a decade. In her role at TIAA, she successfully lobbied for multiple high-profile issues, including landmark pension reform legislation adopted in Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she worked in the aerospace, high tech, education, private and public sectors, and has managed multiple high-profile political campaigns at the local, state and national level. She is a graduate of Gwynedd-Mercy College and holds a Bachelor of Arts in History. Our Board has determined that