공시 • Apr 22
OmniAb, Inc. Announces Board Changes
On April 18, 2025, upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the board of directors (the “Board”) of OmniAb, Inc. (the “Company”), and pursuant to the bylaws of the Company, the Board appointed Steven C. Crouse and Philip J. Gotwals, Ph.D. to the Board, in each case, as a Class II director with an initial term expiring at the Company’s 2027 annual meeting of stockholders. Mr. Crouse was appointed to the Audit Committee and the Science and Technology Committee of the Board, and Dr. Gotwals was appointed to the Human Capital Management and Compensation Committee and the Science and Technology Committee of the Board. Mr. Crouse, 52, has over 20 years of experience in research and development, business development, and general management. Mr. Crouse has served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Analytical Solutions Division at Bio-Techne Corporation, a public life sciences company, since March 2021, overseeing the company’s ProteinSimple branded products and R&D Systems Immunoassays portfolio. Previously Mr. Crouse served as the Senior Director and General Manager of the Protein Detection and Quantification unit at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. from June 2018 to March 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Crouse served as Chief Operating Officer at Vortex Biosciences, Inc. and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Freeslate Inc., which was sold to Unchained Labs in 2016. He also held leadership roles at Bio-Rad Laboratories and Invitrogen Corporation. Mr. Crouse holds a B.S. in pharmacology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.S. in biochemistry from Georgetown University, and an M.B.A. from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Dr. Gotwals, 62, has 30 years of biopharmaceutical experience in R&D, business development, product development and therapeutic area strategy. He was Global Head of Business Development and Licensing at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) from November 2019 to October 2023, where he oversaw business development for all disease areas and technology platforms. Prior to that, Dr. Gotwals was Global Head, Search and Evaluation, Business Development and Licensing of NIBR from June 2017 to November 2019. Dr. Gotwals also served as Executive Director, Oncology/Immuno-Oncology Research at NIBR from September 2010 to June 2017, and previously as Executive Director and Franchise Head, Oncology from April 2009 to August 2010. Prior to NIBR, he was Vice President, Program Management at Altus Pharmaceuticals from 2006 to 2009, where he was responsible for product development and project management activities. Prior to Altus, he was with Biogen Idec from 1994 to 2006 in increasing roles of leadership, most recently as Senior Director, Department of Program and Alliance Management. Dr. Gotwals has served as a Partner at RedSky Partners, LLC, which provides advisory services to the biotechnology industry in the areas of corporate strategy and business development, since November 2023. Dr. Gotwals serves on the board of directors of Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Gotwals has a B.A. in biology from Amherst College, holds a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California at Berkeley, completed postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, business training at Harvard Business School and has published extensively in the area of integrin biology. Further, on April 18, 2025, Sarah Boyce informed the Board of her decision to resign from the Board and all committees thereof, effective April 18, 2025. Ms. Boyce’s resignations from the Board and all committees thereof were not made in connection with a disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices, its management or the Board. In connection with Ms. Boyce’s resignation and the appointments of Mr. Crouse and Dr. Gotwals, the Board increased the size of the Board from six to seven.