Governance

Mr. Graff has served as a DMC Director since June 2007. He is a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he served as the audit leader in the United States for the mining industry, until his retirement in 2001. Mr. Graff began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1973. Since his retirement, he has been a consultant to the mining industry and was a member of a Financial Accounting Standards Board task force for establishing accounting and financial reporting guidance in the mining industry. He represents a consortium of international mining companies and has provided recommendations to the International Accounting Standards Board on mining industry issues and to regulators on industry disclosure requirements of securities legislation. Mr. Graff serves on the board of directors of Yamana Gold Inc. and Alacer Gold Corporation. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Boston College and his post-graduate degree in Accounting from Northeastern University.

Mr. Kelly was appointed as a DMC Director in July 2020. He is president of Sentry Hill Partners, LLC, a global life sciences transformation and management consulting business founded by Mr. Kelly in 2018. From 2003 to 2017, he held a variety of senior and executive leadership positions with Amgen Inc., one of the world’s largest independent biotechnology companies. From 2014 to 2017, he was Senior Vice President of Amgen’s Global Business Services division. He twice served as Amgen’s acting CFO, and also was Vice President of Commercial Operations, and Vice President and CFO of Amgen’s International Commercial Operations. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Kelly was CFO of publicly traded TANOX, Inc. He also held financial leadership positions with BIOGEN, Inc., and NutraSweet Kelco Company, a subsidiary of Monsanto Life Sciences. Mr. Kelly is an independent member of the board of directors for publicly traded Hookipa Pharma, Inc., where he also is the audit committee Chairman. He serves on the Council of Advisors and was the former audit committee Chairman for Direct Relief, a humanitarian aid organization active in all 50 U.S. states, and more than 80 countries. Mr. Kelly received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Florida A&M University.

Mr. Rose has served as a DMC Director since November 2016. He is a senior advisor to Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager. From 2007 to 2016, he was a senior managing director with Blackstone, and served as its global head of public affairs. Mr. Rose also spent 20 years with Goldman Sachs, where he was a Managing Director and held a variety of senior positions in government relations and media relations in Washington DC, New York and Hong Kong. Mr. Rose currently is Vice Chairman of Sard Verbinnen, one of the leading strategic communications firms in the United States. From 1983 to 1987 he was Chief of Staff to Congressman Mike Synar (D-Okla) and a partner with the law firm of Williams and Jensen in Washington DC. Mr. Rose is a graduate of the George Washington University and the Yale Law School. He serves on the national board of the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. He is also on the board of the Poetry Society of America.