Jennifer Evans Stacey, Esq
Ms. Stacey has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2021. Ms. Stacey currently is the Chief Legal & Compliance Officer and Secretary of Neogen Corporation, a publicly traded, global leader in food safety solutions. Ms. Stacey previously served as the Chief Legal & Compliance Officer and Secretary of Galera Therapeutics Inc., a publicly traded clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company from October 2021 until August 2024, continuing in a consulting role until January 2025. Ms. Stacey has more than 25 years of global senior executive experience managing public, private and non-profit companies, ranging in size from 10 to 5,500 employees and primarily within the life sciences industry. Prior to Galera, Ms. Stacey served as Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Government Relations at The Wistar Institute, a biomedical research institute, and before that as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Human Resources and Secretary at Antares Pharma, Inc., which was acquired by Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. in 2022. Previously, Ms. Stacey served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Human Resources, and Secretary at Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and as Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, General Counsel and Secretary at Aventis Behring, LLC. She began her career in life sciences at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, including two years in their Paris office and prior to that began her legal career at King & Spalding in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Stacey graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Princeton University and earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.