On August 5, 2021, Athira Pharma, Inc. announced that Dr. Tadataka Yamada, M.D., a director and Chair of the Board of Directors of the company, died unexpectedly of natural causes on August 4, 2021. On August 5, 2021, the Board appointed Kelly A. Romano as Chair of the Board, and Barbara Kosacz as Chair of each of the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Ms. Romano has served on the Company's board of directors since December 2020 and brings over 30 years of executive operating experience in technology, with a background in commercial buildings and aerospace. In addition to her role at BlueRipple Capital, LLC, Ms. Romano is an Operating Partner at AE Industrial Partners. Previously, she spent 32 years working at United Technologies Corp. (UTC) in various positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as President of Intelligent Building Technologies in UTC Building & Industrial Systems. Ms. Romano is also a member of several boards of directors, including UGI Corporation and Dorman Products, Inc., and is co-chair of the board of directors at Potter Electric Signal.