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David W. J. Mcgirr

Board of Director
Pharmaceuticals
Roka Bioscience
United States of America

Biography

David W. J. McGirr  has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2013. Mr. McGirr served as a senior advisor of Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBST), a biopharmaceutical company focused on products for the acute care environment, from March 2013 to June 2014, and as senior vice president and chief financial officer from 2002 to March 2013. Prior to Cubist, Mr. McGirr was the president and chief operating officer of hippo inc, a privately-held internet technology company, and served as a member of their board of directors. Prior to hippo, Mr. McGirr was the president, and also served as chief executive officer, of GAB Robins North America, Inc., a risk management company. Prior to that, Mr. McGirr served in various positions within the S.G. Warburg Group, an investment bank, ultimately serving as chief financial officer, chief administrative officer and managing director of its subsidiary S.G. Warburg & Co., Inc. Mr. McGirr currently serves as a member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee of each of Insmed Incorporated (NASDAQ CM: INSM), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing an inhaled anti-infective to treat patients battling serious lung diseases and Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing peptide therapeutics for the treatment of rare genetic deficiencies. In addition, Mr. McGirr served on the board of directors of Relypsa (NASDAQ: RLYP) from November 2012 until Relypsa was acquired by Galenica Group (SIX: GALN) in September 2016. Mr. McGirr received a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Glasgow and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Mr. McGirr’s management experience, including his experience as chief financial officer of a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, his experience as a director and audit committee member of other publicly-traded companies and his experience in the financial sector qualifies him to serve as a member of our board of directors.

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