Leadership

Matt Angel

President and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Angel, age 45, has served as Co-Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Factor Bioscience Inc. since 2011. From January 2023 to December 2023, Dr. Angel served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Ernexa Therapeutics Inc. (f/k/a Eterna Therapeutics Inc.). From May 2022 to December 2022, Dr. Angel served as Interim President, Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Ernexa Therapeutics Inc. In 2020, Dr. Angel co-founded Exacis Biotherapeutics Inc. (“Exacis”) and served as the Chief Science Officer, Secretary, Treasurer and as a director of Exacis from 2020 until the sale of Exacis in May 2023. Dr. Angel also co-founded and served as the Chief Science Officer, Secretary and as a director of Novellus, Inc., from 2014 until the sale of Novellus in July 2021. Dr. Angel received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 and a B.S. in Engineering from Princeton University in 2003.

Nicholas Maestas

Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Strategy

Mr. Maestas is the chief financial officer and head of corporate strategy at Tempest. He joined Tempest as vice president, strategy and finance in July 2021. He comes to Tempest from Alector, where he served as the head of FP&A and strategic finance, where he was responsible for setting the company’s roadmap and was instrumental in building Alector's FP&A function and establishing a transformative global collaboration with GSK. Prior to Alector, Mr. Maestas was responsible for corporate and business development, FP&A, alliance management, strategic planning, and general operations such as facilities and IT at Immune Design where he played a key role in the company's eventual sale to Merck in 2019. Prior to Immune Design, he held roles of increasing responsibility at companies focused on a range of aspects of the life sciences industry, including genetic sequencing, medical devices and biotherapeutics. Mr. Maestas received a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.