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Veronika Kandziora

Strategic Consultant | Chief Operating Officer at Helix BioPharma

With over two decades of leadership across biopharma, finance, and consulting, Veronika Kandziora brings a powerful blend of strategic vision, operational know-how, and people-first leadership to her role as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Helix Biopharma. A long-time trusted advisor to the company, Veronika’s deep-rooted connection to Helix offers rare continuity and a wealth of institutional knowledge. Her track record in guiding corporate strategy, transformation, and stakeholder engagement across both Europe and North America makes her uniquely equipped to help steer Helix through its next phase of growth.

A Seasoned Navigator of Strategy and Growth
Analytical, adaptable, and deeply experienced, Veronika Kandziora has played a pivotal role in shaping Helix BioPharma’s journey. She previously served as Corporate Secretary from 2017 to 2019 and continued to support the company’s leadership and Board as a strategic consultant in the years that followed. Beyond Helix, Veronika spent 15 years as an independent asset manager, advising clients, particularly in the biopharma sector, on corporate growth, intellectual property, and investment strategies. Her unique ability to balance long-term vision with practical execution makes her a driving force behind Helix’s continued evolution.

A Leader with Financial Finesse
Veronika Kandziora began her career in 2003 in the financial sector, managing high-level international projects across Germany, Austria, Italy, and Liechtenstein. With deep expertise in biotech-focused consulting, she advised wealth managers, trustees, and investment funds on complex portfolios. A fluent polyglot with a strong foundation in finance, compliance, and governance, she holds a Diploma in Management and Hospitality from Austria’s WIFI Academy and is a certified Vocational Trainer in Liechtenstein. Veronika has also completed advanced compliance training with the Institute for Compliance and Quality Management (ICQM) and the Association for Quality Assurance of Financial Services (VQF), bringing clarity and confidence to even the most complex regulatory environments.

A Strategic Force Behind the Scenes
As Chief Operating Officer, Veronika ensures Helix BioPharma operates with focus and flexibility, aligning teams, streamlining operations, and driving execution. Her leadership helps turn vision into action, accelerating progress toward delivering better treatments for patients who need them most.

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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Christof Boehler

Chief Business Development Officer


Dr. Christof Boehler is a commercially oriented scientist with a proven track record in building and leading teams that successfully commercialize products and services in the life science industry. His core competencies are in technology transfer, business development and corporate governance with a focus on technology scouting, preclinical and clinical R&D, licensing, sales, capital raising and M&A.

Mr. Boehler is also a strategic advisor to Takeda.

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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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Praveen Kumar

V.P. Drug Development


Praveen has experience working in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 25 years and has expertise in the development of drug products for small and macro-molecules using various dosage forms. He was involved in projects comprising the formulation development of generic drug products and their production and developed a novel transdermal drug product containing a protein-based drug (interferon alpha 2b) for the treatment of HPV infections.

Presently as a V.P. he manages the CMC-related activities (drug product formulation, technology transfer, quality, stability testing and interaction with regulatory agency) for the development of L-DOS47 drug product, an antibody drug conjugate, for the treatment of various cancers. He has a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical sciences and he completed his post-doctoral fellowship in gene regulation. He was the author of multiple peer-reviewed published articles, a book chapter, and patents.

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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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