Company: XOMAP
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-073470
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Company: XOMA Royalty Corp
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: PRE 14A
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 various roles of increasing responsibility at Amgen Inc., including as Director, Mergers & Acquisitions and as Director, Out-Partnering. She serves on the Board of Directors of Firefly Bio, Inc., a private biotechnology company, and the Knight Campus External Advisory Board for the University of Oregon, and previously served on the Boards of PDL BioPharma, Inc. and Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc. Ms. Hernday received her B.A. in microbiology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.

Ms. Hernday brings to the Board strong leadership experience in the biotechnology industry, including extensive experience advising biotechnology companies on matters of leadership, corporate strategy, financial planning and business development, such as collaborations, mergers and acquisitions.

Barbara Kosacz has been a director since January 2019. From July 2020 until February 2024, Ms. Kosacz served as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Kronos Bio, Inc. Ms. Kosacz was previously a partner at Cooley LLP from 1996 to 2001, and from 2002 to 2020, and has more than 25 years of experience in counseling clients in the life sciences arena, ranging from early-stage startups to larger public companies, venture funds, investment banks and non-profit institutions. She serves on the Board of Directors of Athira Pharma, Inc., where she serves as Chair of the compensation committee, and on the Board of Directors of Scripps Research. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Phoenix Biotech Acquisition Corp., Locus Walk Acquisition Corp., and Arsenal Biosciences, Inc., where she served on the audit committee. She also has served as a member of the BIO Emerging Companies’ Section Governing Board, the Board of Trustees of the Keck Graduate Institute, and the advisory board of Locust Walk Partners. Ms. Kosacz has been a speaker at multiple life sciences-related conferences, as well as guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University on biotechnology law, biotech business models, corporate partnering negotiations and deal structures and bioethics. Recognized by Best Lawyers in America since 2008, Ms. Kosacz was listed as a “leading lawyer” for healthcare and life sciences in the 2018 Legal 500, as a “Band 1” attorney in the 2018 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers