Company: BIAF
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001641172-25-008977
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Company: bioAffinity Technologies, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-07
Form: 424B4
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3, she has served as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Pictor Ltd., an in-vitro diagnostics company using a proprietary enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay platform to test complex and infectious diseases, and since January 2021, has served as a member of its board of directors. From August 2021 until April 2023, Dr. Platt served as Chief Operations Officer at Personal Genome Diagnostics, a company dedicated to advancing precision oncology acquired by Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings. Since May 2015, Dr. Platt has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of BRIDGenomics, a private consulting and contract commercialization firm she founded in 2015 to provide molecular and genomic-based strategies to clients. Dr. Platt has served since March 2021 as a member of the board of directors of DxTerity Diagnostics Inc., a company pioneering the use of RNA-based immune system profiling to better understand the root causes of immune mediated conditions. From February 2017 until January 2021, Dr. Platt served as Chief Operations Officer of Inivata Limited, a company applying pioneering liquid biopsy technology acquired by NeoGenomics Laboratories, Inc. Dr. Platt earned her PhD in molecular and cellular biology from Oregon State University and completed post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Platt is an industry-recognized peer educator and speaker, holds multiple U.S. and international patents and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. We believe Dr. Platt should serve as a director of the Company because of her scientific background, her start-up company experience, her prior leadership and laboratory experience, her involvement in transforming research organizations into successful commercial entities and her experience expanding product market share in the diagnostics market.

Family Relationships

Maria Zannes is the sister of Timothy P. Zannes, J.D., the Company’s Executive Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel. Other than the sibling relationship between Maria Zannes and Timothy Zannes, there are no other family relationships among any of the Company’s director nominees or executive officers.

Director Independence

Under the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq, a majority of our directors must meet the independence requirements specified in those rules. The Nasdaq listing standards also subject members of the Company’s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee to additional independence requirements. The Board has affirmatively determined that each of the Company’s non-employee directors, which include Robert Anderson, Stuart Diamond, Peter Knight, Gary Rubin, and Jamie Platt are independent directors under the Nasdaq rules and listing standards, including with