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Rohit Babbar

Chief Financial Officer at Helix BioPharma | Certified Public Accountant | Director at Brio Financial Group

Mr. Rohit Babbar brings over 15 years of experience in leading accounting operations and financial strategy for fast-growing private and publicly listed small to mid-sized companies across Canada, Europe, Asia, and the United States. His extensive financial expertise is a valuable asset to Helix BioPharma as the Company prepares to execute key strategic milestones, including upcoming interactions with the FDA.

He has a strong background in ERP implementation, financial modeling, KPI reporting, and M&A accounting. Rohit’s experience spans across a wide range of industries, with a focus on pharmaceuticals and life sciences, SaaS, financial services, staffing, consumer discretionary, and utilities. Additionally, Rohit is well-versed in Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control environment design and compliance, SEC financial reporting, and SPAC transactions.


Academic Excellence
Mr. Rohit Babbar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Delhi University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a designation that reflects a high standard of professional competence. In addition, he is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the United States, further demonstrating his commitment to global financial standards. His strong academic foundation has equipped him to deliver robust financial planning, in-depth analysis, and strategic advisory support to emerging growth companies. Helix BioPharma stands to benefit significantly from the expertise rooted in his academic and professional excellence.

Expert in Strategic Financial Leadership
Mr. Rohit Babbar serves as a Director at Brio Financial Group, where he plays a key role in helping emerging growth companies navigate financial complexity with confidence. The firm’s services span complex financial analysis, Mergers & Acquisitions accounting, valuation, and the development of robust financial reporting frameworks. It also offers strategic financial solutions, including budgeting, modelling, capital procurement, and system design.

Rohit has consistently driven impact across strategic growth and operational efficiency. A standout achievement includes leading a USD 50 million private equity deal that helped fuel a tenfold revenue increase, from USD 20 million to USD 200 million.

Additionally, his expertise spans IPO and audit readiness, SEC reporting, accounting conversions under GAAP, lease classification and incremental borrowing rate analysis (ASC 842), revenue recognition and valuation (ASC 606), as well as dashboard development, lender reporting packages, among other key financial functions.

An Adaptive Leader on Board
Rohit brings strategic financial leadership to Helix at a pivotal point in the Company’s growth. Backed by Brio, he will play a key role in ensuring Helix’s financial operations are fully aligned and resourced to support upcoming clinical and regulatory milestones. Mr. Rohit is drawn to Helix’s strong scientific foundation and long-term vision and is committed to driving a financial strategy that supports the Company’s continued evolution and value creation.

Jacek Antas

Chief Executive Officer


Jacek Antas is a shareholder of the Company, has spent more than 25 years in the financial services industry holding various positions in sales and consulting.

Mr. Antas obtained a master’s degree from the Warsaw School of Economics and has served as a board member of various
companies throughout his career.

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James B. Murphy

Chief Financial Officer


Mr. Murphy is a certified public accountant with over thirty years of experience in finance and operations management. He is currently a consultant with Danforth Advisors LLC (“Danforth”), a leading provider of outsourced strategic and operational specialists across functions in the life sciences industry. While at Danforth, Mr. Murphy has served over fifteen private and publicly held life sciences companies as CFO and CFO Advisor, helping them secure over USD 0.5 billion in financing and successfully execute pivotal asset transactions. Mr. Murphy functions as a consultant to Helix pursuant to a consulting agreement between the Company and Danforth.

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Thomas Mehrling

Medical Adviser


Thomas Mehrling (PhD in Pharmacology and MD) has over 20 years’ experience in multinational Pharma companies developing novel oncology compounds from preclinical research through to registration. Prior to entering the industry, he spent 13 years as an MD at the University Hospital in Frankfurt, working on preclinical and translational projects. He served as Director of European Oncology at Mundipharma International (2003–2013), building the company’s first European oncology business from the ground up out of Cambridge, UK, and completing the clinical development, registration and launch of two major products in Europe, DepoCyte® and Levact® (Ribomustin® and Treanda®). In 2013, he led the establishment of the Mundipharma Group’s start-up, Mundipharma EDO, developing anti-cancer therapeutics for solid tumours out of Basel, Switzerland.

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Kim Gaspar

Director Quality Assurance


Kim is the Director of Quality Assurance at Helix BioPharma Corp. An experienced quality assurance professional with expertise in Canadian, US, and EU regulations, she has been involved in all aspects of Phase I/II biopharmaceutical product development over the years, including regulatory submissions, QC laboratory compliance, tech transfer and third-party oversight of CMC activities, clinical QA, and bioanalytical data analysis. Kim joined Helix in 2000, transitioning into QA in 2003. She holds a B.Sc in Biochemistry and a Ph.D in Veterinary Physiological Sciences, both from the University of Saskatchewan.

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Brenda Lee

Director Clinical Operations


Brenda is the Clinical Operations Director at Helix Biopharma Corp. A clinical research operations professional with 25 years of experience managing clinical trials, ranging from early Phase I to late Phase IIIb/IV studies, she brings experience in clinical study protocol writing and development, trial start-up and vendor management, and a proven track record in planning and managing clinical trials to quality standards, timelines and budget. Brenda joined Helix Biopharma Corp. in 2018, working to advance the clinical program of L-DOS47. She holds B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Toronto, specializing in Nutritional Sciences and Human Biology.

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Jerzy Leszczynski

Director


Jerzy Leszczynski is a shareholder of the Company, has spent more than 35 years developing businesses and has served in the capacity of board member of various real estate development companies. Mr. Leszczynski obtained his Master of Science in Chemistry from the Warsaw Institute of Technology.

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Janusz Grabski

Director, Chair of Audit Committee


Janusz (John) Grabski is a lawyer specialized in corporate and real estate law with over twenty years of experience.

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Malgorzata Laube

Director


Malgorzata Laube has over 19 years of experience in nuclear medicine. In her last role with Alberta Health Services, she was the Department Supervisor, Nuclear Medicine at Royal Alexandra Hospital. Ms. Laube obtained a MSc degree in Environmental Engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology and is based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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Jacek Antas

Chairman of the Board


Jacek Antas is a shareholder of the Company, has spent more than 25 years in the financial services industry holding various positions in sales and consulting.

Mr. Antas obtained a master’s degree from the Warsaw School of Economics and has served as a board member of various
companies throughout his career.

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Jonathan Davis

Advisor, ADC Discovery


Jonathan Davis received his Ph.D. from University of California, San Francisco, where he studied protein structure and function using NMR. After a post-doc at Harvard Medical School exploring RNA selection and structure in the labs of Jack Szostak and Gerhard Wagner, he went to work at EMD Serono, where his work involved improving antibody-based therapeutics, inventing a platform technology for generating heterodimeric Fcs as a basis for multifunctional molecules, and developing a novel scaffold based on an artificially-designed protein from David Baker’s lab. In 2008 he took a job at Bristol-Myers Squibb in Waltham/Cambridge MA, working on antibody discovery and platform development in a wide range of therapeutic areas, with a particular focus on multispecific therapeutics. He moved to Madison, WI in 2019 to take on the role of VP of Innovation and Strategy at Invenra, a biotech focused on bispecific antibodies, and where he is currently head of the Scientific Advisory Board. In early 2024 he left the corporate world to found Creative Antibodies, a consulting firm that helps guide companies to successful antibody discovery and development projects, from mAbs to multispecifics, ADCs, and other formats. Outside of science, Jonathan is a conservatory trained cellist, plays numerous other instruments, and founded the UCSF Orchestra (now Symphony Parnassus) in San Francisco, where he was Music Director for six years.

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Davide Guggi

Advisor, CMC


Davide graduated as a pharmacist and received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology and Biotechnology from the University of Vienna. He has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, principally in the field of oncology. At the beginning of his career, Davide led oncology business units and commercial departments at Mundipharma and Gilead across Austria and Eastern Europe. Since over 10 years he has been working as a CMC expert, covering operational and regulatory CMC functions on behalf of over 20 different small- and medium-sized biotech companies across the world. He has served as CMC Director and CSO/CTO for several years, developing both small molecules and biologics (mABs, Fab, ADCs and Radio-immuno-conjugates) from early discovery to NDA/BLA in the US, EU and Canada, with a focus on First-in-Human and Phase I/II studies in oncology indications.

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