Andy Pasternak

Mr. Pasternak has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2025 and as Chairman of the board of directors since January 2025. Mr. Pasternak is the Chief Strategy Officer at Kardigan Bio, a private biotechnology company developing therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases. Prior to joining Kardigan, Mr. Pasternak served as an advisory partner at Bain & Company, Inc. (“Bain”), a global consulting firm. Prior to Bain, Mr. Pasternak served as Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer at Horizon Therapeutics plc (“Horizon”), a biotechnology company focused on serious, rare autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Prior to joining Horizon in 2019, Mr. Pasternak was a senior partner at Bain, where he served as Head of the Healthcare Practice in the Americas. Earlier in his career, Mr. Pasternak was an analyst in the Investment Banking division of Chemical Securities, Inc. (now part of J.P. Morgan). Previously, Mr. Pasternak served on the Board of Directors of Endo, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, from 2024 to 2025. Mr. Pasternak is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Healthcare Program at the Kellogg School of Management (“HCAK”), where he teaches a course about the biopharmaceutical industry, and serves on the advisory board of the HCAK program.

Mr. Pasternak received his B.A. in economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.