Miri Halperin Wernli, PhD

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Executive President

Dr. Halperin Wernli is a senior pharmaceutical and biomedical executive with over 30 years of strategic and operational leadership and a deep understanding of clinical psychiatry and of drug and product development in heavily regulated environments.

Dr. Halperin Wernli was appointed Executive President in February 2021 and has served on our Board of Directors since August 2020. Prior to joining MindMed, Dr. Halperin Wernli co-founded Creso Pharma, a medical cannabis company, and listed the company on the Australian Stock exchange (ASX) in October 2016. She was the Group CEO and Executive Director of the Board until August 2020.

Prior to founding Creso Pharma, Dr. Halperin Wernli worked in clinical psychiatry in Swiss academic hospital settings. She later held various global senior leadership positions in the pharma and biotech industries in Switzerland and in the US (Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Roche and Actelion pharmaceuticals) covering Product Development, R&D, and Strategic Marketing. Her extensive pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research and development experience covers the full spectrum from Preclinical to Clinical Development and Strategy, to Drug Registration and Launch, across several therapeutic areas.

Dr. Halperin Wernli is a skilled clinician in child and adult psychiatry and an experienced Pharmaceutical leader with skills and broad expertise in Drug Development, Regulatory Affairs, Project & Portfolio Management, Development Finance & Controlling, and Corporate Strategy and Governance.

Paul Summergrad, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Chairman Emeritus of the department of psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center

Nzinga Harrison, MD

Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Eleanor Health

Carol Vallone

Chair of the Board of Directors, Member of Compensation Committee, Member of Audit Committee

Andreas Krebs

Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, Member of Nomination & Governance Committee, Member of Audit Committee

David Gryska

Board Director, Chair of Audit Committee

Roger Crystal, MD

Board Director, Chair of Nomination & Governance Committee, Member of Compensation Committee

Robert Barrow

Chief Executive Officer and Board Director

Suzanne Bruhn, PhD

Board Director, Chair of Compensation Committee, Member of Nomination & Governance Committee

Miri Halperin Wernli, PhD

Executive President

Daniel Karlin, MD, MA

Chief Medical Officer

Stephanie Fagan, MS

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Carrie Liao, CPA

Chief Accounting Officer

Francois Lilienthal, MD, MBA

Chief Commercial Officer

Gregg Pratt, PhD

Chief Regulatory and Quality Assurance Officer

Mark Sullivan, JD

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

Robert Malenka, MD, PhD

Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board, Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University

Peter Bergethon, MD

Member, Scientific Advisory Board VP, Head of Quantitative & Clinical Technologies, Biogen, Inc.

Robert Dworkin, PhD

Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Neurology, and Psychiatry at University of Rochester

Maurizio Fava, MD

Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Carole Abel, MBA

VP, Programs and Portfolio Office

Phong Duong, PharmD

VP, Global Market Access and Health Economics

Peter Mack, PhD

VP, Pharmaceutical Development

Rafael Muniz, MD

VP, Global Medical Affairs

Javier Muniz, MD

VP, Research and Development Strategy

Michael Seggev

VP, Global Marketing, Strategic Insights and Digital Innovation

Maria Oquendo, MD, PhD

Ruth Meltzer Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania, Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Matthias Liechti, MD, PhD

Scientific Collaborator & Advisor

Kim PC Kuypers, PhD

Scientific Collaborator & Advisor

Peter Gasser, MD

Clinical Advisor
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