Company: ZURA
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-038042
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Company: Zura Bio Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
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 a co-founder and served as Chief Business Officer of Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2005 to 2010, which was sold to Allergan plc, and held multiple leadership positions at Amgen Inc. from 1997 to 2005, including General Manager, Nephrology Europe. Mr. Munshi holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Riverside, and an M.B.A. from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Mr. Munshi has more than 30 years of global biopharmaceutical industry experience in executive management, business development, product development and portfolio management. We believe Mr. Munshi’s vast executive management and business experience in the global biopharmaceutical industry and in-depth knowledge of product development gives him the qualifications, attributes and skills to serve as a director. Arnout Ploos van Amstel has served as a director since November 2023 and has more than 30 years of business and operations experience in a wide variety of executive leadership positions and geographies in Life Sciences/Biotech. Mr. Ploos van Amstel has consistently excelled in devising and implementing comprehensive strategies across Development, Medical, and Commercial-Access domains. He founded Apaxcel Life Sciences GmbH in April 2019, a consulting company that supports biopharma customers in creating strategies that accelerate outcomes. He is currently serving as strategic consultant through Apaxcel Life Sciences GmbH. He also founded MoonLake Immuntherapeutics AG, a biotech company dedicated to next-level therapies in inflammatory diseases, and served as its chief operating officer from January 2020 to February 2022. From July 2010 to March 2019, he worked as the President and Managing Director and then Senior Vice President for Novartis, leading its Global Business Unit Immunology/Dermatology where he achieved remarkable portfolio growth, notably with the success of COSENTYX ® (secukinumab), XOLAIR ® (omalizumab) for chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), and with the consistent growth of “orphan blockbuster” ILARIS ® (canakinumab). Mr. Ploos van Amstel’s experience includes leadership roles at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Novartis with executive positions in the US, Canada, Greece, the Netherlands and Switzerland. He was born and raised in the Netherlands and holds a Master’s degree in