Adlai Nortye (ANL) Appoints Roger Sawhney to Its Board

Adlai Nortye Ltd. (NASDAQ: ANL) today announced the appointment of Mr. Roger Sawhney, M.D. to its Board of Directors as a director, effective August 8, 2024. Dr. Sawhney has nearly 30 years of financial and strategic expertise spanning the biopharma industry.

“Dr. Sawhney brings a wealth of financial experience from both the pharmaceutical corporate sector and healthcare investment perspectives,” said Carsten Lu, CEO and Chairman of Adlai Nortye. “Our team welcomes Dr. Sawhney to our Board of Directors, and we look forward to incorporating his insights as we advance our important mission.”

“I am honored to join Adlai Nortye's Board and excited to work with such a talented and dedicated team to bring more innovative cancer therapies to patients worldwide,” said Dr. Sawhney. “I am deeply impressed by Adlai Nortye’s extensive research and development capabilities and the team’s mission to transform deadly cancer into a chronic and eventually curable disease.”

Dr. Sawhney currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer of LB Pharmaceuticals, a neuro-psych focused Company, based in New York City.

From September 2022 to December 2023, Dr. Sawhney served as the Chief Financial Officer of Garuda Therapeutics, Inc. From March 2020 to May 2022, Dr. Sawhney served as the Chief Financial Officer of Omega Therapeutics, Inc., a pioneer in mRNA-based therapeutics for precision gene modulation, and he served as the Chief Business Officer of Omega from May 2022 to September 2022.

From September 2018 to August 2020, Dr. Sawhney served at KKR & Co. Inc., a global investment firm, as Director of its healthcare investment platform in the Americas where his work focused on investments across private and growth equity in the healthcare sector. From July 2009 to August 2012, Dr. Sawhney served as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Corporate Strategy for Novartis AG, as well as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Outcome Health from February 2017 to February 2018. Dr. Sawhney has also served as Partner with Bain & Company from August 2012 to February 2017 and the Boston Consulting Group from 1996 to 2009, where he managed numerous client engagements across the life sciences, med-tech and digital health sectors.

Dr. Sawhney holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

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