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Mr. Panaccio is a healthcare businessman with experience leading companies from concept to commercialization. Mr. Panaccio possesses more than 35 years of executive leadership experience in healthcare services and life sciences, including more than 25 years of board-level experience. Mr. Panaccio is currently a Director of ASX50 company and one of the world's largest medical diagnostics companies, Sonic Healthcare Limited, where he has served since 2005. In addition, Mr. Panaccio is Director of Unison Housing Limited, was a Chairman of Genera Biosystems Limited until June 2019, is a Chairman of Adherium Limited and a Director of Rhythm Biosciences Limited, both of which are publicly listed (ASX) development-stage medical diagnostics/devices companies.

Ms Crowe is a physician-scientist and ASX/Nasdaq-listed company director with expertise in supporting companies with their medical and scientific strategies. She is currently a Director of Sonic Healthcare Ltd, a large global medical diagnostics company. Past board positions include St. Vincent's Health Australia Ltd (2012-2021), the country's largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider. After 35 years at both, she has recently retired from the Burnet Institute, having served as Associate Director Clinical Research, and The Alfred Hospital Melbourne, where she held the appointment of Senior Specialist Physician in Infectious Diseases. She was appointed as Officer of the Order of Australia in June 2020 in recognition of her services to health, clinical governance, biomedical research, and education.

Mr Cook is a veteran in the life sciences/healthcare industry and has been actively supporting the commercialization of healthcare innovations and helping entrepreneurs build their international businesses over the past 45 years. Founder and Managing Director of BioScience Managers, Mr. Curnock Cook brings his international experience to our Board of Directors. Over his career, Mr. Curnock Cook has successfully managed more than US $1 billion in equity investments. He launched the first dedicated biotechnology fund for the Australian market and is a former head of the life science private equity team at Rothschild Asset Management. In his early career he founded the International Biochemicals Group which he successfully sold to Royal Dutch Shell. Mr. Curnock Cook founded a European-focused seed fund with Johnson & Johnson and built the International Biotechnology Trust. Mr. Curnock Cook has served on more than 40 boards of directors in the life science sector in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Japan and Australia.

Mr Perry was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director in June 2017. He continues to serve in this role. Prior to this appointment, Dr Perry served as a Non-Executive Director commencing in February 2013. From 2016 to 2017, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Global Business Development and Licensing for Novartis AG. From 2014 to 2016, Dr Perry served as Chief Scientific Officer of Novartis' Cell and Gene Therapy Unit, and from 2012 to 2014 he served as Vice President and Global Head of Stem Cell Therapy for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp, a U.S. affiliate of Switzerland-based Novartis AG. Dr Perry previously served as the Global Head of R&D at Baxter Healthcare, President and CEO of Cell & Gene Therapy at Novartis affiliates Systemix Inc. and Genetic Therapy, Inc., VP Regulatory Affairs at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp., Director of Regulatory Affairs at Schering-Plough Corporation, and Chairman, CEO or CMO at several early-stage biotech companies. He also previously served as a Venture Partner with Bay City Capital, LLC, a life science investment firm managing 41 venture capital funds, based in San Francisco California. Dr Perry serves as a Director of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, a public (NASDAQ) development stage company focused on medicines that treat intractable diseases by silencing genes. He is also a Venture Partner at BioScience Managers Pty Ltd.

Ms Reed has more than 35 years of legal, management and business leadership experience primarily within the healthcare industry, and brings expertise in corporate governance, compliance, and risk management. Ms. Reed served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., a global health and wellbeing company. Prior to Walgreens, Ms. Reed was Executive Vice President, Human Resources, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Solo Cup Company, where she was responsible for the legal, human resources, internal audit, corporate communications, and compliance functions.

Mr. Vance has over 25 years of leadership experience with commercial and operational expertise in the healthcare industry. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of PhotoniCare, Inc., a position he has held since May 2023. Prior to this appointment, he was President and CEO of Titan Medical, and he served as an independent director for its Board of Directors through November 2024. Previously, Mr. Vance served as President and CEO of XCath, a privately held neurovascular robotics company, having also served in similar roles at OptiScan Biomedical, Myoscience, and Hansen Medical. He strategically transformed and commercialized these businesses and markets with disruptive, enabling, and game-changing novel technologies.

Mr McNamara is a senior executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in public and privately held companies in the medical device and technology industries. His experience in operations and financial management spans across early stage, high growth, and mature companies. He is a former member of the Board of Directors and Chair of Audit Committee for Axonics, Inc. Additionally, Mr. McNamara is a member of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Compensation Committee, and member of the Audit Committee for Xtant Medical Holdings. Prior to these appointments, Mr. McNamara served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of LDR Holding/Spine. Prior to this role, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of three publicly traded medical device companies including Accuray, Somnus Medical Technologies, and Target Therapeutics.

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