Patrick Lucy

Patrick Lucy was elected by and to the Board on January 8, 2021, following the identification, evaluation, and nomination of Mr. Lucy by the Nominating Committee. Mr. Lucy also serves as a member of the Board’s Science and Technology Committee. Mr. Lucy is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Lykan Bioscience (“Lykan”), a privately-held cell therapy contract manufacturing organization based in Hopkinton, MA. Mr. Lucy served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Lykan from January 4, 2021, until March 31, 2021, prior to his promotion to President and Chief Executive Officer on April 1, 2021. Prior to Lykan, Mr. Lucy was a founder of Pfenex Inc. within The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) in 2001. He was a member of the leadership team and led the commercial launch of the Pfenex platform in 2005 through the spin out of the business from Dow in 2009. Mr. Lucy was subsequently a member of the team that successfully completed Pfenex’s initial public offering in 2014 and continued to lead business/corporate development and portfolio strategy as Chief Business Officer. During his tenure at Pfenex, Mr. Lucy completed over $1.5 billion dollars of partnership transactions. Pfenex was acquired by Ligand Pharmaceuticals in October 2020. Prior to joining Dow in 2000, via Dow’s acquisition of Collaborative BioAlliance, Patrick served as Collaborative’s Director of Business Development. From 1995 to 1999, he held multiple operational roles at Lonza Biologics (“Lonza”) spanning quality control, validation, and capital project management. In his final role at Lonza, Patrick led the mechanical completion, start-up and validation of a large-scale biologics manufacturing facility. He began his career in biotechnology at Repligen Corporation in 1991 serving in a variety of laboratory-based roles following his graduation from Villanova University.

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