Board of Directors

William Garner, MD

Chairman of the Board of Director

Dr. Garner is a biotech industry entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience. In 2002 he founded EGB Ventures, where he is focused on advancing technologies and companies to significant value inflection points, leading to monetization of assets via licensing, M&A or IPO transactions.

Dr. Garner served as Non-Executive Chairman & Founder of Race Oncology from 2016 to 2020 and as Founder and Chairman at Isla Pharmaceuticals from 2017 to 2020. He is currently a Founder & Director of Tryp Therapeutics. In addition, he has held Chief Executive Officer positions with a public company in the U.S. and a public company in Australia. Dr. Garner brings additional medical affairs experience from his tenure at Hoffmann LaRoche’s oncology division in 1999. Prior to Roche, Dr. Garner was a healthcare merchant banker in New York City. He has a Master of Public Health from Harvard and earned his M.D. at New York Medical College. Dr. Garner trained in Anatomic Pathology at Columbia-Presbyterian and is currently a licensed physician in the State of New York. Dr. Garner makes valuable contributions to the Board based on his extensive director-level and executive-management experience, as well as his medical background. Mr. Garner has been a director of InMed since June 2016.

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Janet Grove, QC

Director

Janet Grove is a corporate lawyer and partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP where she is Canadian head of their Life Sciences and Healthcare Group.Janet was previously managing partner of Vancouver based law firm, Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP and led Bull, Housser in its merger discussions with global law firm, Norton Rose Fulbright.

She then served as managing partner of Norton Rose Fulbright’s Vancouver office until her term expired at the end of 2019. She was named one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2017 by Women’s Executive Network and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2020. Ms. Grove also currently serves on the board of Genome BC and sits on the Audit and Assurance Council of Canada. She is also a former Chair and director of St. John Ambulance Vancouver Branch and a former director of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. In 2000, Janet joined the legal team at a Canadian biotechnology company then listed on the TSX and NASDAQ, where she was a member of the company’s executive management team. She held a number of roles, including the position of Vice-President and Corporate Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Business Ethics Officer prior to returning to private practice in 2008.

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Adam Cutler

Director

Mr. Cutler has over 20 years of experience in the global healthcare industry where he successfully held senior leadership positions in various roles from Equity Research, Corporate Affairs and Strategy, Investor Relations and Consulting.

Mr. Cutler is currently Chief Financial Officer at Molecular Templates, Inc. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Arbutus Biopharma and, prior to that, was Managing Director at The Trout Group LLC and Trout Capital LLC, where he executed financings and advised a wide range of life science companies on investor relations, business development, and capital raising strategy. Mr. Cutler spent almost 12 years as a sell-side analyst with firms including Credit Suisse, Canaccord Genuity, JMP Securities, and Bank of America Securities, with prior analytical and consulting experience at The Frankel Group and Ernst & Young, Healthcare Consulting. Mr. Cutler holds a BA in Economics from Brandeis University.

Mr. Cutler previously served as a Director of Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Andrew Hull, BA

Director

Mr. Hull has over 30 years of experience in various commercial and business development roles with leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies. He most recently served as Vice President of Global Alliances for Takeda Pharmaceuticals where he was responsible

for maximizing the success of Takeda’s growing number (40+) of commercial and R&D partnerships with many of the industry’s leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies. In previous roles, he led marketing and commercial development of Takeda’s United States portfolio of over $3 billion, including diabetes, neuroscience, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular therapies. Additionally, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Immunex and Abbott Laboratories.

Mr. Hull received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Kenyon College in 1985. He also recently served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization and recently was a member of the Kenyon College Board of Trustees. Mr. Hull serves as a Director of Zucara Therapeutics, Inc.

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Bryan Baldasare

Director

Mr. Baldasare is a well-rounded biotech executive with wealth of experience in finance and accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury management, commercial operations and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Baldasare spent over 20 years at Meridian Bioscience, most recently as Chief Financial Officer where during his tenure, grew its revenues by over 500%, developed and launched dozens of new products, expanded into a diversified global business with 15 sites in 10 countries. Mr. Baldasare is currently the CFO at Hilltop Companies, a leading supplier to the construction industry. Prior to Meridian, Mr. Baldasare spent over 10 years in public accounting at Arthur Andersen LLP.

Mr. Baldasare has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.

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Eric A. Adams, MIBS

Chief Executive Officer & President

Mr. Adams is a seasoned biopharmaceutical executive with more than 30 years of experience in company and capital formation, global market development, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and corporate governance.

Mr. Adams has been our President and Chief Executive Officer, and a Director, since 2016. He previously served as CEO at enGene Inc. Prior to enGene, he held senior roles in global market development with QLT Inc., Advanced Tissue Sciences Inc., Abbott Laboratories, and Fresenius AG (Germany).

He is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States and holds a Masters of International Business from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelors in Chemistry from the University of Southern Indiana.

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