Company: ACHV
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059297
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Company: ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 The determination was made that Dr. Martell should serve on the Board of Directors due to her diverse background of scientific, clinical and leadership experience in the clinical development, success of numerous marketed products across multiple therapeutic categories, leadership in her operational roles, and engagement with key industry and business stakeholders in the biopharmaceutical space.

Nancy R. Phelanhas served as Senior Vice President & Head of Customer Engagement at Trinity Life Sciences, a life sciences consultancy. She has served as a member of the board of directors of Medexus Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company, since September 2023, and a board member of FemmePharma Consumer Healthcare, a pharmaceutical company, since 2018. From May 2022 to May 2024, Ms. Phelan served as Senior Vice President of Indegene, a technology-led healthcare solutions provider. Prior to that, she held roles of increasing responsibility with Novartis AG, a multinational pharmaceutical company, including as Vice President, Business Transformation, Patient Engagement and Integrated Marketing Team Lead from April 2021 to May 2022 and Vice President, Patient and Specialty Services, Neuroscience from June 2002 to April 2021. She served as Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of Adhera Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, from April, 2019 to June 2020 and as a director from October 2018 to June 2020. Ms. Phelan received a B.A. with Honors from Franklin & Marshall College and completed coursework towards an M.B.A.from Villanova University. She also received certificates from Wharton Executive Education and the Harvard School of Public Health. The determination was made that Ms. Phelan should serve

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on our Board of Directors due to her executive leadership in biopharma and expertise in data-driven insights, digital innovation and digital-first marketing.

Thomas Sellighas served as the Chief Executive Officer of Adare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a global technology-driven Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization since January 2022. From July 2019 to October 2021, Mr. Sellig served as Chief Executive Officer of LabConnect, Inc., a clinical trial laboratory services organization. Prior to LabConnect, Inc., Mr. Sellig was Chief Commercial Officer at PSKW, LLC (doing business as ConnectiveRx), a biopharmaceutical services company, from September 2018 to July 2019. From November 2014 to August 2017, Mr. Sellig was Senior Vice President of Global