Olivier R. Jarry is currently the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Libera Bio S.L., a private Spanish biopharmaceutical company devoted to the development of a new class of precision therapeutics to address intracellular cancer targets, since April 2018. He also serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Advantage Therapeutics Inc., an investigational-stage company focused on the diseases of aging, since May 2023 and as Chief Financial Officer of Rational Vaccines, Inc., an investigational-stage infectious disease company focused on combating herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) and herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) infections, since August 2021. Mr. Jarry served as an advisor to DarioHealth Corp. (Nasdaq: DRIO) from November 2016 to September 2017, and then as its President and Chief Commercial Officer until January 2020. Between 2015 and 2016, he served as Senior Vice President of the Consumer Sector and Officer at Intrexon Corp. (NYSE: XON), a biotechnology company focused on engineering biological systems to enable DNA-based control over the function and output of living cells. Prior to Intrexon, from 2011 to 2012, Mr. Jarry served as the Head of Strategy, Operations and Market Access, focusing on Emerging Markets, for Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), where he oversaw the product launch and growth of innovative medicines relating to oncology, virology, rheumatology, cardiovascular and diabetes. Between 2009 and 2010, Mr. Jarry served as the Global Business Unit Head of Bayer Diabetes Care, a division of Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals LLC. Prior to his time at Bayer HealthCare, from 2001 to 2009, Mr. Jarry served in several leadership roles at Novartis International AG (NYSE: NVS), including working as Global Division Head of Strategy, Business Development & Licensing at Novartis Headquarters in Switzerland, Senior Vice President and Region Head for Latin America and for Asia-Pacific for Novartis’ Consumer Health Division, Head of India Rural Business and Head of Western/Eastern Europe, Russia, CIS-Vaccines division. Mr. Jarry holds a M.Sc. degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris, a MEng. degree from Délégation Générale pour l’Armement, and a Trium Executive MBA degree jointly awarded by NYU Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and Political Science and Hautes Études Commerciales Paris. Mr. Jarry’s more than 40 years of building fast-growing companies in neuroimmunology, oncology, cell & gene therapy, synthetic biology and digital therapeutics makes him well qualified as a member of the Board.
