Company: CNTB
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001835268-25-000014
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Company: Connect Biopharma Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 10
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 investment. Before joining Qiming Venture Partners in 2016, Dr. Chen was a senior scientist at Johnson & Johnson, where he focused on cancer medicine. Prior to that, Dr. Chen was a group leader at Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Company Ltd., where he specialized in cancer immunotherapies. Dr. Chen earned his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Case Western Reserve University in the U.S. and completed his postdoctoral training in immunology at Harvard Medical School. He received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Fudan University.

Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and our Board believe that Dr. Chen is qualified to serve on our Board due to his extensive expertise and experience as a healthcare investor, in science and medicine, and as a director of other public and private biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

James Z. Huang, MBA, has served on our Board since 2024. Mr. Huang has over 30 years of biotech experience. He has served as the Founding Partner of Panacea Venture, an investment firm with its focus on innovative and transformative healthcare and life sciences companies worldwide, since 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Huang served as managing partner at Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) China and at Vivo Ventures, and he served in various leadership roles with Anesiva, Inc., Tularik Inc., GlaxoSmithKline LLC, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and ALZA Corporation. Mr. Huang serves on the boards of directors of Kindstar Globalgene Technology, Inc. and Lee’s Pharmaceutical (HK) Limited. Previously, Mr. Huang served on the boards of directors of Casi Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Windtree Therapeutics, Inc. and Alaunos Therapeutics, Inc. Mr. Huang received an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

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Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and our Board believe that Mr. Huang is qualified to serve on our Board due to his extensive expertise and experience as a life sciences investor, a senior leader of several biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies, and as a director of other public and private biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. 

Jean Liu, J.D., has served on our Board since 2021. Ms. Liu has more than 25 years of biopharmaceutical executive and law firm experience and was most recently Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Seagen Inc., a targeted cancer therapeutic company