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Noubar B. Afeyan, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since 2013. Previously, Dr. Afeyan served as our President from April 2013 to May 2014 and as the Chairman of our board of directors from April 2013 to December 2014 and from July 2016 to January 2017. In 1999, Dr. Afeyan founded Flagship Pioneering and serves as its Senior Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer. Since August 2010, Dr. Afeyan has served on the board of directors of Moderna, Inc. He currently serves on the boards of numerous privately held companies, and has previously served on the boards of numerous privately and publicly held companies, including Seres Therapeutics, Inc., Evelo Biosciences, Inc., Kaleido Biosciences, Inc. and BG Medicine, Inc. He received a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in chemical engineering from McGill University. Dr. Afeyan is currently a visiting lecturer of business administration at Harvard Business School. We believe that Dr. Afeyan’s significant experience co-founding, leading and investing in numerous biotechnology companies make him qualified to serve on our board of directors.

Noubar Ghazarossian is Senior Director of Reliance Globalcom Services, Inc. He joined Yipes in December 2002.
Mr. Ghazarossian worked at Pacific Bell, AT&T, Bank of America, Price Waterhouse, MCA Universal, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey.
He has over 25 years in senior management experience focusing on operations, business-to-business commerce, business process management, and global network management.
Mr. Ghazarossian received an MBA in Telecommunications Management and a BS degree in Information Sciences from Golden Gate University.

Noubar Takessian currently works as a Director at Professional Engineers Ontario.

Raffi Afeyan is the founder.
He founded Ampersand Biomedicines, Inc. in 2000, where he currently holds the title of Chief Innovation Officer.
He is also currently working as a Senior Principal at Flagship Pioneering since 2021.
In his former positions, he served as Vice President at Cellarity Inc. and Generate Biomedicines, Inc. Mr. Afeyan has a graduate degree from Boston University and an undergraduate degree from McGill University.