Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc. continued to strengthen its leadership team with the following appointments and promotions. Sunita Sethi, Pharm.D., has been appointed Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. Dr. Sethi has over thirty years of relevant industry experience, having held leadership roles in regulatory, medical affairs, clinical research, and pharmacovigilance at Astra Zeneca, Pharmacyclics, Elan Pharmaceuticals, J&J, and Parke Davis.

Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President, Head of Global Regulatory Affairs at ChemoCentryx. Naymisha (Isha) Patel, M.B.A., has been appointed Senior Vice President of Quality. Ms. Patel has over twenty-five years industry experience in Quality and Compliance, with a focus on building Quality functions from the ground up for diverse therapeutics, including some cell and gene therapies.

She has held positions of increasing leadership at Ocular Therapeutics, Prothena, StemCells, Geron and Nektar Therapeutics. Prior to joining Tenaya, Ms. Patel served as Vice President, Quality, for Evolus Inc. Kee Hong Kim, Ph.D., has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Kim has served as Senior Vice President, Manufacturing and Technical Operations at Tenaya since October 2018, and has led Tenaya's effort to internalize Process Development, Analytical Development, and Quality Control capabilities, and overseen the establishment of Tenaya's cGMP manufacturing facility.

Prior to joining Tenaya, he served in roles of increasing leadership at several gene and cell therapies companies, including Agilis Biotherapeutics, Shire, Avalanche Biotechnologies (now Adverum), and Dendreon.