Exagen Inc. announce the company’s stockholders approved the election of Mr. Frank Stokes as an additional independent member to its Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting held on June 17, 2021. Mr. Stokes will also serve as Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Stokes has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Castle Biosciences Inc., a skin cancer diagnostics company, since December 2017. From January 2017 to December 2017, Mr. Stokes served as Chief Financial Officer of Hammock Pharmaceuticals. From May 2011 to December 2016, Mr. Stokes served as a Managing Director of Leerink Swann (now SVB Leerink). Mr. Stokes also held positions as a Managing Director at Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated and Wachovia Securities, LLC. While at SVB Leerink and Robert W. Baird & Co., Mr. Stokes led life sciences, tools and diagnostics sector investment banking efforts and managed financings and mergers and acquisitions transactions.