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She has extensive experience serving on the boards of directors and board committees, including, audit, nominating and governance, compensation and science and technology committees of multiple public companies. She currently serves on the board of directors of Sorrento Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SRNE), ServiceSource International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SREV), Celularity Inc, a Celgene spin-out focused on cancer and regenerative medicine, as well as Vcinity, Inc. Dr. Smith had also served as chairman of the board of directors of MYnd Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYND now EMMA), and as an independent board director of Rockwell Medical (NASDAQ: RMTI), Seelos Therapeutics (NASDAQ: SEEL), Signal Genetics (NASDAQ: SGNL) and BioXcel Corp. From 2006 until 2015, Dr. Smith was chairman and chief executive officer of the Neostem (NASDAQ: NBS), where she pioneered the company’s innovative business model combining proprietary cell therapy development with successful contract development and manufacturing organization that was sold to Hitachi at 8x the price it had been acquired. During her 9 years of tenure, the company won an array of industry awards and received business recognition including a first-place ranking in the tri-state area (2 years in a row), and eleventh place nationally, on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 and Frost & Sullivan’s North American Cell Therapeutics Technology Innovation Leadership Award. |