Committee Composition
| Audit Committee | Nomination Committee | Remuneration Committee | |
| Catherine Coste | Chairperson | Member | |
| Robert Naylor | Member | Chairperson | |
| Erik Lium, Ph.D. | Member | Member | |
| Christopher Mills | Chairperson |
Catherine Coste
Non-Executive Director
Catherine Coste was appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors in June 2023. Ms. Coste retired from Deloitte and Touche LLP (“Deloitte”) in 2020, where she was a Senior Partner, and served as one of Deloitte’s Life Sciences industry executive leaders. She spent 32 years in both corporate and professional services positions leading global finance, internal audit, and operations teams. During her career at Deloitte, Ms. Coste was directly involved with over 30 life science corporations, the majority of which were large-cap and medium-cap public corporations. She also serves as a Director at both Minerva Surgical, Inc., where she is Chair of the Audit Committee and a Member of the Compensation Committee, and Biomerica, Inc., where she is Chair of the Audit Committee, and serves on both the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Ms. Coste’s experience includes, but is not limited to, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, corporate risk analysis and management, cyber risk assessment, fraud prevention, IT systems analysis and upgrades, internal controls, and corporate governance. She is a Certified Public Accountant, who earned her B.A. in business administration, accounting, from California State University, Hayward.
Chair of the Audit Committee, Member of the Remuneration Committee
Robert Naylor
Non-Executive Director
Robert Naylor has 29 years’ experience in capital markets, specialising in both the life sciences and investment companies sectors. Robert is currently CEO and Co-Founder of Intuitive Investments Group plc, a London Stock Exchange Specialist Funds Segment investment company providing investors with exposure to fast growing technology and life sciences businesses. Robert is also Non-Executive Director of NIOX Group PLC, a company dedicated to improving asthma diagnosis and management, and PRS REIT plc, a FTSE 250 closed-ended real estate investment company which invests in high-quality, new build, family homes in the private rented sector.
Previously, Robert was Chairman of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, a FTSE 250 company, which was subject to a recommended cash offer by a newly-formed company indirectly wholly-owned by investment funds advised by affiliates of Blackstone Inc. Robert was Chairman of Round Hill Music Royalty Fund Limited and oversaw its sale to a company directly owned by Alchemy Copyrights, LLC, trading as Concord. Earlier in his career Robert held various positions within JP Morgan Asset Management Limited, Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited and Cenkos Securities plc. Robert is a qualified chartered accountant, having started his career with Ernst & Young in 1996.
Member of the Audit Committee, Chair of the Remuneration Committee
Erik Lium, Ph.D.
Non-Executive Director
Erik Lium, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2018. Since March 2014, Dr. Lium has served in various roles at Mount Sinai, where he is currently the president of Mount Sinai Innovation Partners, and the executive vice president and chief commercial innovation officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Lium represents Mount Sinai on several private company boards and previously served as a member of the investment review committee for the Accelerate NY Seed Fund. Dr. Lium also serves as chairman of the board of managers of Kantaro. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Lium served as the assistant vice chancellor of Innovation, Technology & Alliances at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the UCSF principal investigator for the Bay Area National Science Foundation I-Corps node, and assistant vice chancellor of Research. Dr. Lium served as president of LabVelocity Inc. prior to its acquisition in 2004. He pursued postdoctoral research at UCSF in the laboratory of J. Michael Bishop, M.D., earned a Ph.D. from the Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies at Columbia University in the laboratory of Dr. Saul J. Silverstein, and holds a B.S. in Biology from Gonzaga University.
Member of the Audit Committee, Member of Nomination Committee
Christopher Mills
Non-Executive Chairman
Christopher Mills has served as a member of our board of directors since our inception. Mr. Mills founded Harwood Capital Management in 2011, a successor from its former parent company J.O. Hambro Capital Management, which he co-founded in 1993. He is chief executive officer and investment manager of North Atlantic Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and chairman and chief executive officer of Harwood Capital Management Ltd. Mr. Mills currently serves on the board of a number of public companies, including EKF Diagnostics plc, Sureserve Group plc, Augean plc and MJ Gleeson plc. Mr. Mills received a B.A. in Business Studies from Guildhall University.
Chair of the Nomination Committee