Board of Directors

Karen Ferrante, M.D.
Director

Dr. Ferrante has served as a director since January 2017. Dr. Ferrante, a hematologist-oncologist, most recently served as Chief Medical Officer and Head of Research and Development at Tokai Pharmaceuticals and brings over 25 years of oncology drug development experience to the Board. Prior to Tokai, Dr. Ferrante held several senior level positions at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. and parent company Takeda Pharmaceuticals, including Oncology Therapeutic Area Head, Takeda Cambridge Site Head and Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Ferrante previously held positions of increasing responsibility at Pfizer Global Research and Development and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Dr. Ferrante holds an M.D. from Georgetown University and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at New England Deaconess Hospital (now part of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) followed by a fellowship in hematology and oncology. She currently serves as a member of the board of Cogent Biosciences (formerly Unum Therapeutics), a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. She previously served on the board of Hutch-Med (formerly Chi-Med) a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company and Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Baxalta Inc., previously publicly traded biopharmaceutical companies. She also served on the scientific advisory board of Kazia Therapeutics (2016-2022) and the Trillium Therapeutics' scientific advisory board until its acquisition by Pfizer in 2021. Based on Dr. Ferrante’s depth of experience in the biotechnology industry, ranging from executive officer to director roles, the Board believes Dr. Ferrante has the appropriate set of skills to serve as a member of our Board.

William Heiden
Chairman

Mr. Heiden has served as chair of our Board of Directors since May 2022. Mr. Heiden brings over 35 years of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry to the MacroGenics Board of Directors. Mr. Heiden most recently served as President, Chief Executive Officer and board member of AMAG Pharmaceuticals, building a diverse portfolio of commercial and development-stage products from May 2012 to January 2020. Prior to joining AMAG, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Genzyme Transgenics Company (GTC), from June 2010 to May 2012, which was acquired by LFB, S.A. Prior to joining GTC, Mr. Heiden was President, Chief Executive Officer and board member of venture-backed Elixir Pharmaceuticals from 2004 to 2008. Prior to joining Elixir, Mr. Heiden served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Praecis Pharmaceuticals from 2002 to 2004, which was acquired by GSK. From 1987 to 2002, Mr. Heiden progressed through various positions of increasing responsibility at Schering-Plough Corporation (now Merck & Co.), including managing a number of businesses in the United States, Europe and Canada. Mr. Heiden also serves on the Board of Directors of Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc., a publicly held company. He also serves on the boards of privately held companies Third Pole Therapeutics, CoreA Therapeutics. He also serves on the board of Boston Collegiate Charter School, a non-profit organization. Heiden holds an M.B.A. from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, a Master’s in International Management from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and a B.A. degree in finance from the University of Florida. The Board believes that Mr. Heiden’s 30 plus years of pharmaceutical industry experience leading organizations in both large pharmaceutical and emerging biotechnology companies, significant commercial expertise, and strong deal making experience qualify him to serve as a member of our Board.

Edward Hurwitz
Director

Mr. Hurwitz has served as a director since October 2004. Mr. Hurwitz was most recently a Managing Director of MPM Capital, a life sciences venture capital firm. Prior to joining MPM Capital, Mr. Hurwitz was the founding Managing Director of Precision Bioventures, LLC, a consulting and investment advisory firm. He was a director of Alta BioPharma III, L.P., and Alta Partners VIII, L.P., funds affiliated with Alta Partners, a venture capital firm, from 2002 through December 2014. Mr. Hurwitz also serves as a director Dyne Therapeutics, a publicly held company. Mr. Hurwitz received J.D. and M.B.A degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in 1990 and a B.A. in molecular biology from Cornell University in 1985. The Board believes that Mr. Hurwitz’s financial and scientific expertise, as well as his deep understanding of the biotechnology industry, makes him an important asset to our Board as it assesses both financial and strategic decisions.

Scott Jackson
Director

Mr. Jackson has served as a director since January 2017. Mr. Jackson served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of Celator Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from April 2008 until July 2016, when the company was acquired by Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc. Mr. Jackson has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and has held positions of increasing responsibility in sales, marketing and commercial development at Eli Lilly and Company, SmithKline Beecham, ImClone Systems Inc., Centocor Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson, Eximias Pharmaceutical and YM BioSciences. Mr. Jackson serves as a director of Spero Therapeutics, Inc., and Mural Oncology plc; all publicly held companies. Mr. Jackson serves on the audit committees of Spero Therapeutics, Inc., and Mural Oncology plc. Mr. Jackson served as a director of GlycoMimetics, Inc. until February 2025. Mr. Jackson also serves on the Board of Directors of Philabundance, a non-profit organization addressing food insecurity in the Philadelphia region. He holds a B.S. in pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science and an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Based on Mr. Jackson’s depth of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries ranging from executive officer to director roles and experience with commercial development, the Board believes Mr. Jackson has the appropriate set of skills to serve as a member of our Board.

Meenu Chhabra Karson
Director

Ms. Chhabra Karson has served as a director since January 2023. Ms. Chhabra Karson is currently the CEO of Evercrisp Biosciences, a privately held biotechnology company, a role she has held since September 2024. Ms. Chhabra Karson has served as Executive Chair of the board of directors of Samsara Therapeutics since July 2023 and previously served as chair of the board of directors of Apexigen from July 2022 until Apexigen’s acquisition by Pyxis Oncology in August 2023. She previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Proteostasis Therapeutics from May 2014 until December 2020, and has served as a director on a number of private biotech boards since January 2021. From 2007 to 2014, Ms. Chhabra Karson was President and Chief Executive Officer at Allozyne, Inc. Prior to her time at Allozyne, she served as the Chief Business Officer at BioXell SpA and has also held roles of increasing responsibility at Novartis, Warner-Lambert Company, LLC, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Ms. Chhabra Karson obtained her M.B.A. from York University and her B.Sc. from the University of Toronto. The Board believes that Ms. Chhabra Karson’s more than 20 years of operational leadership in biopharmaceutical companies and financial expertise qualify her to serve as a member of our Board.

Scott Koenig, M.D., Ph.D.
Director

Dr. Koenig served as MacroGenics' President and Chief Executive Officer from September 2001 through August 2025 and was one of our co-founders. Prior to joining MacroGenics, Dr. Koenig served as Senior Vice President of Research at MedImmune, Inc., where he participated in the selection and maturation of its product pipeline. From 1984 to 1990, he worked in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, where he investigated the immune response to retroviruses and studied the pathogenesis of AIDS. Dr. Koenig serves on the Board of Directors of the International Biomedical Research Alliance and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (“BIO”). Dr. Koenig previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation until its acquisition in 2022. Dr. Koenig received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Cornell University and his M.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. We believe that Dr. Koenig’s detailed knowledge of our company and his over 30 years in research and the biotechnology industry provide a valuable contribution to our Board.

Margaret A. Liu, M.D.
Director

Dr. Liu has served as a director since January 2023. Dr. Liu has served as the Chief Executive Officer of PAX Therapeutics since 2020 and is an Adjunct Full Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and Hedersdoktor with scientific affiliation in the Department of Medicine at the Karolinska Institutet. She widely consults for companies and NGOs such as the World Health Organization through her activities as Principal of ProTherImmune LLC. She is a Board Member of the International Society for Vaccines (and President Emerita) as well as a Director of Ipsen, where she chairs the Ethics and Governance Committee and is a member of the Innovation and Development Committee, and was on the Innovation and Development Committee-Consumer Healthcare prior to the sale of that division in 2022. Dr. Liu is a member of the Supervisory Board of NanoBiotix. She served on the boards of Transgene, Sangamo Biosciences, Adjuvance Technologies, and the International Vaccine Institute (established by the United Nations Development Programme) where she was chair of the Governance Committee and had previously been chair of the Scientific Advisory Group, was Senior Advisor in Vaccinology at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and earlier held positions of increasing responsibility at Merck & Co. and Chiron Corporation. Dr. Liu obtained an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a B.A. in Chemistry summa cum laude from Colorado College. She is known as The Mother of DNA vaccines for her ground-breaking work in that technology. She completed an Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine and a Fellowship in Endocrinology, all at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and received board certification in both, and was an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard University. Dr. Liu was also a Visiting Scientist at MIT, where she pioneered bispecific antibodies, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the NIH NIAID Advisory Council. The Board believes that Dr. Liu’s medical training and more than 30 years of experience in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals qualify her to serve as a member of our Board.

Federica “Freddi” O’Brien
Director

Ms. O’Brien has served as a director since February 2021. Ms. O'Brien is President of CFO'Brien Consulting, LLC which she founded in 2018, providing strategic and operational consulting, and flex time chief financial officer services primarily for early-stage biotech companies. Previously she served as Chief Financial Officer of multiple biopharmaceutical companies including Complexa Inc. and Cerecor Inc., and publicly held Cardiokine, Inc., as well as serving as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Cervilenz Inc., a privately held medical device company. Further, she was the Controller at Barrier Therapeutics, Inc., and Chief Financial Officer at Infonautics, Inc., both publicly held companies. She began her career as a CPA at public accounting and advisory firms, most recently at PwC. Ms. O’Brien holds the NACD.Directorship Certification (NACD.DC) from the National Association of Corporate Directors. In 2025 Ms. O'Brien earned a course completion certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management in Cybersecurity Governance for the Board of Directors. Ms. O’Brien received her B.A. in Accounting from Rutgers University and is a Certified Public Accountant — Inactive in the State of New Jersey. The Board believes that Ms. O’Brien’s financial, operational and governance expertise, from a 40-year career in advisory, biopharmaceutical, medical device, and technology companies, qualifies her to serve as a member of our Board.

Eric Risser
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Eric Risser

Mr. Risser was named President and Chief Executive Officer in August 2025 and previously served as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining us in 2009, Mr. Risser held the position of Senior Director, Business Development in the pharmaceutical group at Johnson & Johnson, where he worked from 2003 to 2009. Before Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Risser started and built a consulting practice that provided counsel to emerging life science companies in the United States and Europe. Earlier in his career, Mr. Risser held venture capital and investment banking positions with BA Venture Partners and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., respectively. Mr. Risser holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Yale University.

David Stump, M.D.
Director

Dr. Stump has served as a director since September 2013. Dr. Stump was most recently Executive Vice President, Research and Development at Human Genome Sciences, Inc., where he was employed from November 1999 until his retirement in December 2012. Dr. Stump also serves as a director of REGENXBIO, Inc., which is a publicly held company. He was previously a director of Dendreon Corporation, Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., all publicly held companies. He also serves on the board of trustees of Earlham College. He holds an A.B. from Earlham College and an M.D. from Indiana University and completed his residency fellowship training in internal medicine, hematology, oncology, and biochemistry at the University of Iowa. The Board believes that Dr. Stump’s medical training and 23 years of experience in research and development and operations in the biotechnology industry, as well as his public company board service, qualify him to serve as a member of our Board.