Company: HCWB
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058961
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Company: HCW Biologics Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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, which enables him to bring to our board of directors an operational perspective as well as valuable insights and experience. Gary M. Winer has served on our board of directors since October 2021. Mr. Winer served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of ORGENTEC Diagnostika GmbH. a specialty manufacturer of autoimmune and infectious disease diagnostic tests, from April 2019 until the sale of the company in September 2021. In addition, since January 2015, Mr. Winer has worked as a consultant for DRC Health Care Advisors, a consulting firm in the biopharma, medical device and diagnostic health sectors. From April 2014 until January 2015, Mr. Winer was the Vice President of Global Commercial Strategies for AbbVie and from January 2013 until April 2014, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of AbbVie Japan, following AbbVie’s separation from Abbott. Prior to that, from April 2003 to January 2013, Mr. Winer served in a variety of roles for Abbott Laboratories, a multinational medical devices and healthcare company, including most recently as corporate vice president and president for Abbott Japan. Mr. Winer has served on the board of directors of Lensar. Inc. since 2018. Mr. Winer received his B.S. in finance from California State University, and his MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. We believe that Mr. Winer is qualified to serve as a director due to his experience leading and managing biotechnology companies, as well as his healthcare industry knowledge and his experience serving on the board of directors of other companies. Vote Required and Board of Directors’ Recommendation The Class I director nominees will be elected by the plurality standard, which in an uncontested election means being elected with a single vote. You may vote either FOR the nominees or WITHHOLD your vote from the nominees. Votes that are withheld will not be included in the vote tally for the election of directors. If your shares are held in “street name” by a broker, bank or other nominee, your broker, bank or other nominee does not have authority to vote your unvoted shares held by the firm for the election of directors. As a result, any shares not voted by you will be treated as a broker non-vote. Such broker non-votes will have no effect on the results of this vote. The proposal for the election of directors relates solely to the election of the Class I directors nominated by