Company: PRTA
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001559053-25-000009
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Company: PROTHENA CORP PUBLIC LTD CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 10
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 A. Ford has served as our Chief People Officer since March 2024. He brings over 25 years of experience in a variety of human resources roles across the United States, Europe, Latin America and New Zealand. Prior to joining Prothena, he was the Chief Human Resources Officer at Intercept Pharmaceuticals from May 2017 through December 2023. Prior to that, he spent nearly 15 years at Sanofi, where he last served as Vice President Human Resources for the Sanofi Genzyme global business unit from January 2016 to May 2017. Prior to that, from November 2011 through December 2015, Mr. Ford served as Vice President Human Resources for the Sanofi North American businesses. Mr. Ford joined the pharmaceutical industry in 2002 as the HR Director - United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland for Sanofi-Synthelabo. He earned his master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France).

Carol D. Karp has served as our Chief Regulatory Officer since 2016. Prior to joining Prothena, she was an independent regulatory consultant to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. From 2013 to 2014, Ms. Karp was Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Compliance at Esperion Therapeutics, Inc., and from 2010 to 2013, she was Vice President, 

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Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance & Risk Management at Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy, a Johnson & Johnson Company. Previously, Ms. Karp held senior regulatory positions at CV Therapeutics, Inc., PowderJect Technologies, VIVUS, Inc., Cygnus, Inc., and Janssen Pharmaceutica. She earned her BA in Biology from the University of Rochester, where she is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Michael J. Malecek has served as our Chief Legal Officer since 2019. Prior to joining Prothena in 2019, he was Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property and Litigation of Snowflake (a data warehouse company) from 2018. From 2010 to 2018, he was a Partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Malecek was Partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf, LLP. From 2002 to 2008, he was Vice President and Chief Advocacy Counsel at Affymetrix. Mr. Malecek