Jaguar Health, Inc. announced that it has appointed Anula Jayasuriya, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., to the company's Board of Directors, effective July 1, 2022. Dr. Jayasuriya is a highly experienced healthcare private equity executive and venture capitalist with broad clinical, industry, entrepreneurial, and investment experience. Jaguar also announced that it has established a Business Development Advisory Committee to identify and assess opportunities for potential alliances, mergers, and acquisitions.

Jaguar board member Greg Divis resigned from the company's board, effective July 1, 2022. Rachel Zolot Schwartz has been named Chair of Jaguar's Business Development Advisory Committee (BDAC). Ms. Schwartz is Vice President of Business Development and Commercial at Volastra Therapeutics, a New York-based drug discovery and therapeutics company pioneering novel approaches to treating cancer by exploiting chromosomal instability.

Ms. Schwartz has more than 15 years of commercial and business development experience both within the pharmaceutical industry as well as in consulting. Prior to joining Volastra, she worked in business development at Pfizer, where she led the commercial assessments for all oncology deals, notably including the $11 billion acquisition of Array BioPharma in 2019. During her time in business development, she also completed transactions to externalize medicines that had been deprioritized by Pfizer.

In addition to business development, she held senior roles in commercial development and marketing, where she recently led the launch planning for ORGOVYX. She also spent time in Pfizer's Portfolio Decision Analysis group supporting R&D investment allocation decisions to optimize value and improve R&D productivity across Pfizer's portfolio. Before Pfizer, Rachel was an associate principal at Trinity Life Sciences consulting where she focused on licensing &acquisitions, brand strategy and portfolio optimization.

She began her career in sales and marketing at Eli Lilly. Rachel received her MBA at the New York University Stern School of Business and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Jayasuriya is the Founder &Managing Director of EXXclaim Capital, an early-stage venture fund focused on catalyzing innovation, entrepreneurship and investment in Women's Health, and a Co-founder of Evolvence India Life Science Fund (EILSF), the very first fund in India to focus exclusively on health care and invest in Indian pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and contract services companies.

She has applied deep business, scientific, and medical knowledge in her career as a pharmaceutical company executive, private equity executive, and venture capitalist, providing her with a broad experience base spanning clinical, executive, entrepreneurial, and financial roles. In 2006, Dr. Jayasuriya co-founded EILSF, focusing exclusively on investment in Indian pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and contract services companies. Dr. Jayasuriya was previously a partner with Skyline Ventures in Palo Alto, and prior to that with the German/US venture capital firm TVM, in San Francisco.

Her prior positions include VP Business Development at Genomics Collaborative Inc., Vice President, Global Drug Development at Hoffman-La Roche for opportunistic infections in AIDS and Transplantation, and Director, Outcomes Research at Syntex Laboratories. Dr. Jayasuriya received a BA from Harvard summa cum laude, and an MD and PhD (in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) from Harvard Medical School. She interned in Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

She also holds a M. Phil. in pharmacology from the University of Cambridge, in England.