Mr. Tontat has served as our Chief Operating Officer since August 2019, as our Chief Financial Officer since October 2019 and as a member of our board of directors since January 2020. Prior to joining us, Mr. Tontat worked as a business and financial consultant and Financial Analyst since November 2011 for Exuma Blue Advisors, LLC, where he worked with many private and public companies. He primarily helped these companies raise funds at various stages of life cycle. He worked in financial teams to raise funds for public companies like Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. and NantKwest. Prior to this, he worked as an investment analyst at healthcare- specialist hedge funds in New York and also worked as investment banker at HSBC Investment Bank in their New York and Paris offices.

Mr. Tontat earned his BA in Economics from Harvard University.