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Mr Spooner has served on the Board of Directors since 2004. During this period he has filled various roles including as Chairman from the date of the ASX public listing in 2004 until 2007. Over the past several years Mr Spooner has served on the board of directors in various capacities at several Australian and international biotechnology companies, including BiVacor Pty Ltd (2009- 2013), Advanced Surgical Design & Manufacture Limited (2010-2011), Peplin, Inc. (2004-2009), Hawaii Biotech, Inc. (2010-2012), Hunter Immunology Limited (2007-2008), and Ventracor Limited (2001-2003). He has been the Chairman of Simavita Ltd since May 2016 and Chairman of MicrofluidX since February 2018. Prior to returning to Australia in 2001, Mr Spooner spent much of his career internationally where he served in various roles including as a partner to PA Consulting Group, a UK-based management consultancy, and a Principal Partner and Director of Consulting Services with PricewaterhouseCoopers (Coopers & Lybrand) in Hong Kong. In addition Mr Spooner has owned and operated several international companies providing services and has consulted to a number of U.S. and Asian public companies. Mr Spooner provides executive management, commercial, business strategy and accounting expertise as well as established relationships with investment firms and business communities worldwide

Dr Itescu is our Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He has served our board of directors since our founding in 2004, was Executive Director from 2007 to 2011, and became CEO and Managing Director in 2011. Prior to founding Mesoblast in 2004, Dr Itescu established an international reputation as a physician scientist in the fields of stem cell biology, autoimmune diseases, organ transplantation, and heart failure. He has been a faculty member of Columbia University in New York, and of Melbourne and Monash universities in Australia. In 2011, Dr Itescu was named BioSpectrum Asia Person of the Year. In 2013, he received the inaugural Key Innovator Award from the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture for his leadership in translational science and clinical medicine in relation to adult stem cell therapy. Dr Itescu has consulted for various international pharmaceutical companies, has been an adviser to biotechnology and health care investor groups, and has served on the board of directors of several publicly listed life sciences companies

Dr Rose has served on our board of directors since 2013. From 2007 through 2021, Dr Rose was with SIGA Technologies initially as CEO from 2007 to 2017 and then Chairman. From 2008 through 2012, Dr Rose served as the Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor and Chairman of the Department of Health Evidence and Policy at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. From 1994 through 2007, Dr Rose served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Columbia Presbyterian Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital. From 1982 through 1992, he led the Columbia Presbyterian heart transplantation program in the United States. Dr Rose currently sits on the board of directors of ABIOMED. His experience as a surgeon, researcher and businessman provides medical, pharmaceutical, scientific and industry expertise.

Mr Burns has served on our board of directors since 2014 and was appointed Vice Chairman in 2016. He spent his entire management career at the Beecham Group and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. He was Chief Executive Officer of Roche Pharmaceuticals from 2001 to 2009, when he joined the board of directors of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. until he retired in 2014. He is the Chair of Molecular Partners, and has been a Non-Executive Director of Shire PLC, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Genentech, Crucell, and Chairman of Biotie Therapies Corp. from 2014 until its sale to Acorda Therapeutics Inc. in 2016. Mr Burns is also a member of the Oncology Advisory Board of the Universities of Cologne/Bonn in Germany. In 2014, he was appointed a trustee of the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and from March 2016 until April 2020 a Governor of The Wellcome Trust in London, UK. His extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically as a member of the board of directors of other pharmaceutical companies, provides pharmaceutical, healthcare, industry, leadership and management expertise.

Ms Bell has 22 years of corporate finance experience focussing on international investment transactions in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, including funds management, mergers, acquisitions, and divestments. She has served as a non-executive Director in a diverse range of highly regulated sectors including delivery of healthcare, life sciences, medical research, and funds management. Ms Bell currently serves as Deputy Chair of Monash Health. From 2014 until 2021 she was a director of U Ethical, Australia's first ethical funds manager, and a member of its Investment Committee. She has also been a director of Hudson Institute of Medical Research, is currently a director of Amplia Therapeutics, and Chairs Advisory Groups for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance.

Mr Swedish has more than two decades of healthcare leadership experience as the CEO for major United States healthcare enterprises. Most recently, he has served as Executive Chairman, President and CEO of Anthem Inc., America's leading health benefits provider. Prior to joining Anthem, Mr Swedish was CEO for several major integrated healthcare delivery systems, including Trinity Health and Colorado's Centura Health. Currently, he sits on the board of directors of IBM Corporation, CDW Corporation, and Centrexion Therapeutics. Mr Swedish is a member and previously Chairman of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors. Previously, he was Chairman of the Catholic Health Association and the America's Health Insurance Plans.

Mr Facchina brings more than 35 years of experience in corporate strategy, capital markets, finance, and business development across several industries, including healthcare. Since 2018, Mr. Facchina has been Chief Strategy Officer at SurgCenter Development, the largest privately held operator of ambulatory surgery centers in the US, overseeing the company's strategic relationships, including its relationships with the broad US ASC market, certain hospital systems and other market constituents. Prior to SurgCenter, Mr Facchina spent two decades in the public and private capital markets, where he managed liquid and illiquid portfolios, and managed public and private capital transactions of equity and debt, led M&A and special advisory processes including take-privates. From 2008 to 2017, Mr. Facchina served as a Partner, Co-Portfolio Manager and the Chief Operating Officer of Ramsey Asset Management, an institutional investment management firm, and from 1998 to 2008 Mr. Facchina led the technology, media and communications and healthcare investment banking groups of FBR Capital Markets. Mr Facchina currently serves as an independent director for ViON 84 Corporation and Millennium Global Treasury Services, and is Advisor to the CEO of Johanna Foods Inc, where he heads the Audit Committee and he also serves as an advisor to New Markets Venture Partners. Previously, among other directorships and committee posts, Mr Facchina served on the Board of Web.com, where he led Corporate Governance. Mr Facchina is a qualified financial expert for SEC and NASDAQ purposes

Dr Krause was for the past decade Deputy Director, Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR) at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). Dr Krause is currently Chair of the World Health Organization COVID Vaccines Research Expert Group, and most recently he shared responsibility for regulatory authorizations of COVID-19 vaccines in the US. His experience includes regulation and development of biological products, including interdisciplinary team-based review process for clinical (safety and efficacy) and CMC (product quality) issues throughout the product life cycle, through Phase 3 clinical development and post-marketing phases. In a 30-year career at FDA Dr Krause has collaborated with international and US domestic stakeholders including the European Medicines Association (EMA), Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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