Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain
Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensation Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On May 11, 2023, the Board of Directors of the
Company (the “Board”), pursuant to a recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board (the
“Nominating Committee”), appointed each of Jason M. Marks and Michael E. Dambach to serve as Class II Directors of the Company,
with terms expiring at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders, in order to fill two of the three existing vacancies on
the Board. In addition, Mr. Marks was appointed to the Compensation Committee of the Board and Mr. Dambach was appointed to the Audit
Committee of the Board. Furthermore, Mr. Alan Moses was appointed to the Nominating Committee.
Mr. Marks, age 47, most recently held the position
of Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer & Corporate Secretary, and then as Senior Advisor, of Amarin Corporation
plc (“Amarin”), a global pharmaceutical company focused on cardiovascular disease, where he worked from August 2021 to March
2023. Prior to Amarin, Mr. Marks served as Chief Legal Officer and Head of Corporate Development at TerrAscend Corp. (“TerrAscend”),
a publicly traded company where he also acted as head of compliance and corporate secretary from August 2020 to August 2021. Prior to
his role at TerrAscend, Mr. Marks was Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of InflaRx N.V., a publicly traded
biotechnology company headquartered in Germany, where he also had responsibility for compliance and U.S. operations, from January 2019
to August 2020. Prior to that, from November 2016 to December 2018, Mr. Marks held roles including, Senior Vice President, Head of Legal
Branded Rx (Salix) and Global Litigation and Government Investigations at Bausch Health Companies Inc., a multinational publicly traded
pharmaceutical company. Mr. Marks has also held senior roles at Novartis’s Alcon division, from June 2012 to November 2016, including
as head of legal for North America and Global Litigation & Government Investigations, leading functions including Global Trade Compliance,
Global Legal HR and Global Records Management, and at Stryker Corporation, between 2008 and 2012, in Europe and the United States. He
started his legal career in 2001 in private practice in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Marks received a J.D. with honors from the
George Washington University Law School and an A.B. in History from the University of Chicago.
Mr. Dambach, age 56, is the Vice President and
Treasurer of Biogen Inc., a biotechnology company (“Biogen”), a position he has held since 2010. Mr. Dambach also served as
the Assistant Treasurer of Biogen from August 2007 to October 2010. Prior to joining Biogen, Mr. Dambach served as the acting Treasurer
for Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a laboratory supply and biotechnology company, from May 2006 to August 2007 and Assistant Treasurer
at Fisher Scientific International Inc. from October 2004 to May 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Dambach served as Senior Vice President of FleetBoston
Financial Corporation, an international bank, from 1999 to May 2004, as well as Senior Trader and other positions at BankBoston from 1994
to 1999. Mr. Dambach has been a Chartered Financial Analyst for over 20 years. Mr. Dambach currently serves on the Board of Biomedical
Science Careers Program. Mr. Dambach received an MBA, with honors, from Boston University and a B.S. in business administration from the
University of New Hampshire.
There is no arrangement or understanding between
Mr. Marks or Mr. Dambach and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Marks or Mr. Dambach, respectively, was selected as a Director. There
are no transactions, relationships or agreements between Mr. Marks or Mr. Dambach and the Company that would require disclosure pursuant
to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
The Board concluded that each of Mr. Marks and
Mr. Dambach is qualified to serve as a Director and is independent under the rules of the NYSE American LLC. For their service as Directors,
Mr. Marks and Mr. Dambach will be entitled to the compensation the Company generally provides to its Directors, with the annual cash fees
prorated.
In connection with their appointments, the Company
entered into an indemnification agreement with each of Mr. Marks and Mr. Dambach, effective as of May 11, 2023, on substantially the same
terms as the agreements previously entered between the Company and each of its other Directors. The form of indemnification agreement
entered into between the Company and its Directors is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed
on May 15, 2023, and is incorporated herein by reference.