Board of Directors

Stephen C. Glover

Stephen C. Glover

Co-founder, Chairman, CEO, and President

Mr. Glover is a co-founder, and Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of ZyVersa. He has multifaceted experience in Fortune 100, start up, and entrepreneurial environments. Mr. Glover was formerly a co-founder of Coherus Biosciences where he was focused on business strategy, partnerships, product development, and capitalization of the company. Prior to Coherus, he was the President of Insmed Therapeutic Proteins, as well as Chief Business Officer of Insmed Incorporated. At Insmed, Mr. Glover was responsible for the creation of the biosimilar business unit and divestiture of the business to Merck. As Chief Business Officer he led Insmed’s strategic review process which resulted in the merger of Insmed and Transave. Mr. Glover received his B.S. in Marketing from Illinois State University. He serves on the board of PDS Biotechnology and the Coulter Foundation (University of Miami). Mr. Glover was selected to serve on ZyVersa’s Board of Directors based on his extensive experience in the therapeutics industry, his deep knowledge of ZyVersa, and his ongoing experience as a board member of other life sciences companies.

GREGORY G. FREITAG, JD, CPA

GREGORY G. FREITAG, JD, CPA

Principal of FreiMc

Gregory Freitag has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2023. Mr. Freitag is currently a member of the board of directors of PDS Biotechnology Corporation (NASDAQ: PDSB), a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing a growing pipeline of targeted cancer and infectious disease immunotherapies based on its proprietary Veramune and Infectimune T cell-activating platforms. He served from February 2011 until June 2024 as a member of the board of directors of Axogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXGN), a leading regenerative medicine company dedicated to peripheral nerve repair. Mr. Freitag was Axogen’s Special Counsel from June 2020 until March 2021, General Counsel from September 2011 until June 2020, Chief Financial Officer from September 2011 until May 2014 and August 2015 until March 2016, and Senior Vice President Business Development from May 2014 until October 2018. Mr. Freitag holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Economics & Business and Law & Society from Macalester College, Minnesota. Mr. Freitag was selected to serve on the Board and as the chair of the Company’s Audit Committee because of his proven leadership and experience as a senior-level executive, his particular knowledge of public companies, including reporting, compliance and financial markets related thereto, his finance management and legal expertise, his former position as a public company chief financial officer and over 30 years of experience in the life sciences sector.

JAMES SAPIRSTEIN

JAMES SAPIRSTEIN

Chairman and CEO – 8 Prime Biosciences

James Sapirstein has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2023. Mr. Sapirstein is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of 8 Prime Biosciences. He served as Chairman and CEO of Entero Therapeutics (ENTO:NASDAQ) from October 2019 until February 2025 and served as Chief Executive Officer of Contravir Pharmaceuticals from March 2014 until October 2018. Mr. Sapirstein served as the Chief Executive Officer of three NASDAQ listed companies. Mr. Sapirstein has raised over $600 Million dollars in venture capital and public capital markets financing in his various engagements as Chief Executive Officer. He was named as a Finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2015 as well as in 2016. He was Chairman of the Board for BioNJ, an association of biopharma industries in New Jersey from February 2017 to February 2019. In addition, he is a former member of the Board of Directors for BIO (Biotechnology Innovation Organization), the leading biotechnology trade organization promoting public policy and networking in the healthcare space, where he sat on several committees including the Emerging Companies Section Governing Board. Mr. Sapirstein was selected to serve as a member of the Board because of his extensive experience as an executive in the biotech and pharmaceutical sectors and as a director for multiple public companies in such sectors.