Company: RNAC
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001453687-25-000075
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Company: Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 |  52 |     |                       2021 |     | Director                                        |

The principal occupations and business experience, for at least the past five years, of each Class III nominee for election at the Annual Meeting are as follows:

| TIMOTHY C. BARABE, M.B.A. |     | Age | 72 |

Timothy C. Barabe, M.B.A. has served as a member of our Board since July 2016. Mr. Barabe also served on the boards of Veeva Systems Inc. from September 2015 to June 2021 and serves on the board of directors of Vigilant Biosciences, Inc., a private company, as well as Heartflow, Inc., also a private company. From 2001 to January 2020, Mr. Barabe served on the board of directors of ArQule, Inc., and from 2014 to 2017, Mr. Barabe served on the board of directors of Opexa Therapeutics, Inc. Mr. Barabe retired in June 2013 from his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Affymetrix, Inc. Previously, from July 2006 until March 2010, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Human Genome Sciences, Inc. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Regent Medical Limited, a U.K.-based, privately owned, surgical supply company. Mr. Barabe served with Novartis AG from 1982 through August 2004 in a succession of senior executive positions in finance and general management, most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of Sandoz GmbH, the generic pharmaceutical subsidiary of Novartis. Mr. Barabe received his B.B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and his M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago. Mr. Barabe’s experience as a senior financial executive of life sciences companies and knowledge of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries contributed to our Board’s conclusion that he should serve as a director of our Company.

| CARSTEN BRUNN, PH.D. |     | Age | 54 |

Carsten Brunn, Ph.D. has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and member of our Board since December 2018. Dr. Brunn previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Surface Oncology, Inc., a public oncology company, from June 2022 until September