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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 such companies, offers the Board valuable perspective and insight and provides him with the qualifications and skills to serve as a director of our Company.

Douglas W. Calder

Douglas W. Calder has served as a director of our Company since April 2023. Since August 2016, he has served as president and a director of Vycellix, Inc. (including its subsidiaries and affiliates), a private company engineering immune-privileged, T cell and natural killer (“NK”) cell-based cancer therapeutics. Mr. Calder has also served as a member of the board of directors of Renovaro, a public biotechnology company (Nasdaq: RENB), since October 2024, of NextGenNK, Sweden’s NK cell competence center, since June 2019, and of BioFlorida, a private company supporting Florida’s life sciences industry, since September 2018. He also has been a member of the Society for Natural Immunity since July 2018. Mr. Calder has more than 30 years of life science executive experience, having served in various senior executive roles for

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Florida-based biotechnology companies and research institutes, including Viragen, Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Biovest International and the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, as well as having formerly served as a registered financial portfolio manager with a focus on life science equities with the New York Stock Exchange member firms, Gruntal & Co. and Dean Witter Reynolds. Mr. Calder received a BA from Florida State University. Our Board believes that Mr. Calder’s experience in biotechnology and life science industries, including as an executive and as director, provide him with the qualifications and skills to serve as a director of our Company.

Corey Watton

Corey Watton has served as a director of our Company since April 2023. Mr. Watton has served as president and chief executive officer of Fusion Medical Staffing, LLC, a private company among the fifteen largest medical staffing companies in the US, since September 2023. Prior to his CEO role, Mr. Watton served as chief financial officer of Fusion from August 2019 until September 2023, overseeing finance, project management, operations, facilities and legal operations. From April 2009 through July 2019, he served as the chief financial officer of Home Instead Senior Health Care, a global leader in in-home health care, where he oversaw finance, subsidiary companies and the financial arm of an