Christopher (Chris) Hill has served as our Chief Executive Officer since November 14, 2025 and as our Chief Financial Officer since September 10, 2025.

Mr. Hill has over 10 years experience of serving in chief financial officer and chief operating officer roles in public and private life science companies. From September 2021 through September 9, 2025, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of Istesso Limited, a private drug development company with pre-clinical to phase IIb assets developing new therapies in auto-immune and fibrotic diseases. Previously, Mr. Hill served as part-time Chief Financial Officer of Ixaka Limited, a private cell therapy company, from April 2020 through September 2021 and as Finance Director of OxSonics Therapeutics Limited, a private clinical stage therapeutics company developing improved drug delivery solutions to solid tumour cancers, from March 2019 through September 2021.

Mr. Hill served as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Oxford Pharmascience Group Plc, formerly a publicly listed drug development company on AIM focused on gastro-safe NSAIDs, from October 2013 through January 2018. Mr. Hill had responsibility for the financial, legal and HR functions within the group and for AIM and other regulatory reporting. During his tenure, the company underwent a demerger, and its operations were spun out into Abaco Capital (AIM: ABAA) and private company, Oxford Pharmascience Limited. His other prior roles include serving as Group Financial Controller at Ora Capital Partners Limited, previously an AIM-listed investment vehicle, from July 2010 through October 2013, and as Audit Senior at international audit, professional services and consulting firm, Grant Thornton UK LLP, from June 2005 to June 2010. He currently serves as a director of private companies, Connexin Therapeutics Group Limited and CJH Financial Limited.

Mr. Hill is a chartered accountant and holds a B.A. degree in Economics and Public Policy from Leeds Metropolitan University.