Board of Directors :: Cynapsus Therapeutics Inc. (CYNA)

Rochelle Stenzler

Chair of the Board of Directors

Rochelle Stenzler has served as the Chairperson of Cynapsus’ board of directors since March 2011 and has been a member of the board of directors since March 2006. Ms. Stenzler has been the Principal of Rochelle Stenzler Consulting since 2004. Ms. Stenzler previously served as the President and General Manager of Pharma Plus Drugmarts Ltd., a retail drugstore company, from 1992 to 1997; the President of Revlon Canada Inc. from 1997 to 1998; the President, International Operations of TLC Laser Eye Centers Inc., an operator of refractive centers throughout North America and the world’s largest provider of laser vision correction, from 1999 to 2000; and the President and Chief Executive Officer of TouchLogic Corporation, a company that develops and markets on an outsourced basis interactive voice response solutions and services to North American businesses, from 2000 to 2003. Ms. Stenzler currently serves as a director and audit committee member at Humber River Hospital and a director at WPO (World Presidents Organization), Ontario and was previously a board advisor to PCAS (Patient Care Automation Services). Ms. Stenzler is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a BSc.Phm. and the Rotman School of Management, Institute of Corporate Directors, with an ICD.D.

Frederick W. Driscoll

Director

Fred Driscoll has served as a member of Cynapsus’ board of directors since May 2016. Mr. Driscoll is currently the chairman of the board of directors of OXiGENE, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Driscoll is also currently CFO of Flexion Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company. Prior to joining Flexion, Mr. Driscoll was CFO at Novavax, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company from 2009 to May 2013. Previously, Mr. Driscoll also served as CFO from 2007 to 2008, and subsequently CEO from 2008 to 2009, at Genelabs Technologies, Inc., then a publicly traded biopharmaceutical and diagnostics company, and CFO at Astraris, Inc., a private biotechnology company, from 2006 to 2007. Prior to Astaris, Mr. Driscoll was CEO of OXiGENE from 2002 to 2006. Mr. Driscoll earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Bentley University.

Anthony J. Giovinazzo

President & CEO, Director

Anthony Giovinazzo has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since November 2009 and as a member of Cynapsus’ board of directors since May 2012. He is one of the inventors of the original APL-130277 intellectual property. Mr. Giovinazzo has been involved in the CNS field (relating to PD, Alzheimer’s, pain and anxiety) for over 20 years, with experience in clinical development, intellectual property protection and licensing. From April 2006 to November 2009, Mr. Giovinazzo served as the Chief Executive Officer of Cervelo Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. From 2002 to 2006, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Cita NeuroPharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Giovinazzo obtained a Chartered Director (C.Dir.) and Audit Committee Certification (A.C.C.) from The Director’s College (where he was also a faculty member) in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He attended the Harvard Business School Executive Program: Leadership and Strategy in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech in 2006. Mr. Giovinazzo completed his M.B.A. at IMD Geneva, Switzerland; Graduate Certificate Studies in Canadian Law (Taxation) Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; and a B.A. in Economics and Accounting, at McMaster University. He was also a business advisory board member of the National Research Council of Canada’s Genomics funding program, for two terms from 2007 to 2012.

Tomer Gold

Director

Tomer Gold has served as a member of Cynapsus’ board of directors since May 2013. Mr. Gold has been the Vice President, Research and Development of Dexcel Pharma Technologies Ltd., an international pharmaceutical company involved in the development, manufacture and commercialization of pharmaceuticals, since 2011. From 1999 to 2011, Mr. Gold was employed by Teva Pharmaceutical Ltd., a pharmaceutical company, and at his last position led the Pharmaceutical Development - European Union team of the Global Generic Research and Development branch. Mr. Gold holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and was granted a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Ronald Hosking

Director, Chair of the Audit Committee

Ronald Hosking has served as a member of the board of directors since January 2010. Mr. Hosking has been the Chief Financial Officer at PlantForm Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, since December 2008. From 1997 to 2008, Mr. Hosking was Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer of PreMD Inc., a developer of point of care medical devices. Mr. Hosking is a C.P.A., C.A. and a graduate of the University of Toronto with a B.Com. (Finance).

Tamar Howson

Director

Tamar Howson has served as a member of Cynapsus’ board of directors since March 2015. Ms. Howson previously served as Senior Vice President at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a pharmaceutical company, from 2001 to 2007 and SmithKline Beecham, a pharmaceutical company, from 1996 to 2000. Ms. Howson currently serves as a business development and strategy consultant to biopharmaceutical companies and she also serves as a director at Enzymotec Ltd., Oxigene, Inc. and Organovo Holdings Inc. Ms. Howson has served as a member of the audit committees of Oxigene, Inc. since 2012 and Organovo Holdings Inc. since 2014. She has formerly served as a director at several biotechnology companies, including Actavis plc, Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cardax, Inc., Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc., NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc., SkyePharma PLC and Warner Chilcott plc. Ms. Howson holds an M.B.A from Columbia University, a M.S. from City University of New York, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Nan Hutchinson

Director

Nan Hutchinson has served as a member of the board of directors since February 2014. Ms. Hutchinson was the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales for URL Pharma, a privately held pharmaceutical company, from November 2009 to October 2010. From April 2001 to November 2003, Ms. Hutchinson was a Senior Vice President of Marketing at Bristol Myers Squibb, a biopharmaceutical company. She managed certain business units for Johnson & Johnson from 1986 to 2001. Ms. Hutchinson holds a B.Com. from Mount Allison University and a M.B.A. degree from Boston University.

Perry Molinoff

Director, Chair of the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee

Perry Molinoff has served as a member of the board of directors since May 2012. Dr. Molinoff has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania since 1981, where he was the Vice Provost for Research from 2003 to 2006. He is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania and has been an Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at the Medical University of South Carolina, or MUSC, Charleston, South Carolina since 2001. He has been the Chairman of Foundation for Research Development at MUSC since April 2014. Dr. Molinoff has been the Chairman of the Innovation Support Center, part of the Harrington Discovery Institute operating out of University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University since 2012. He has previously been a member of the board of directors of both publicly traded and private companies including Palatin Technologies, Cypress Biosciences, Aegera Therapeutics and Cita Neuropharma. Dr. Molinoff received his M.D. from Harvard University.

Ilan Oren

Director

Ilan Oren has served as a member of Cynapsus’ board of directors since May 2013. Mr. Oren has served as the Vice President, Business Development at Dexcel Pharma Technologies Ltd., an international pharmaceutical company involved in the development, manufacture and commercialization of pharmaceuticals, since 2011. Mr. Oren has served on the board of two pharmaceutical companies, Roivant Sciences Ltd. and Axovant Sciences Ltd., since May 2014 and March 2015, respectively. He previously worked at L.E.K. Consulting, a life sciences advisory firm, from 2007 to 2011. Mr. Oren holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.