The above descriptions of the separation agreements do not purport to be complete and are subject to and qualified in their entirety by reference to the copies of the applicable separation agreements of Dr. Ballal and Mr. Gray included as Exhibits 10.6 and 10.7, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K, which are incorporated herein by reference.
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Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, on February 23, 2023, the Board appointed Sam Kintz, M.B.A, as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Benjamin Hohl as Chief Financial Officer of the Company.
Sam Kintz, M.B.A., age 37, is one of Former Enliven’s co-founders and has served as its President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board of directors since June 2019, and was appointed as the President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of directors of the Company in connection with the closing of the Merger. Prior to joining Former Enliven, Mr. Kintz served as Executive Director, Head of Research at AbbVie Stemcentrx LLC, a subsidiary of AbbVie Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, from October 2016 to June 2019. He served as Senior Director, Strategy and Business Development at Stemcentrx, Inc., a private biopharmaceutical company, from February 2016 to October 2016 until it was acquired by AbbVie. He has also worked as a medicinal chemist at Genentech, where he designed and synthesized small-molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. Mr. Kintz holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Benjamin Hohl, age 34, has served as Former Enliven’s Chief Financial Officer since August 2021 and was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company in connection with the closing of the Merger. Mr. Hohl joined Former Enliven from the Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs & Co LLC, an investment bank and financial services company, where he worked as an investment banker for nearly a decade advising on and executing biopharmaceutical and life sciences financing and strategic transactions from July 2012 to July 2021. He holds a B.A. in Business Economics and Accounting from the University of California, Los Angeles.
There are no family relationships between Messrs. Kintz and Hohl and any director or executive officer of the Company, and Messrs. Kintz and Hohl do not have a direct or indirect material interest in any related party transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Confirmatory Employment Letters
In connection with and effective as of the closing of the Merger, on February 23, 2023, the Company entered into a confirmatory employment letter with Messrs. Kintz and Hohl and Dr. Helen Collins, who was appointed as the Company’s Chief Medical Officer in connection with the Merger. Each confirmatory employment letter provides for at-will employment and no specific term.
Pursuant to the applicable confirmatory employment letter, Mr. Kintz’s annual base salary was increased from $400,000 to $550,000, and he will be eligible to receive an annual target cash incentive payment of up to 50% of his annual base salary, Dr. Collins’ annual base salary was increased from $400,000 to $465,000, and she will be eligible to receive an annual target cash incentive payment of up to 40% of her annual base salary, and Mr. Hohl’s annual base salary was increased from $350,000 to $410,000, and he will be eligible to receive an annual target cash incentive payment of up to 40% of his annual base salary.
Each of Messrs. Kintz and Hohl and Dr. Collins will be eligible to receive certain severance benefits upon certain involuntary terminations pursuant to a change in control and severance agreement entered into with us, as described in more detail below.
The above descriptions of the confirmatory employment letters do not purport to be complete and are subject to and qualified in their entirety by reference to the copies of the applicable confirmatory employment related agreements of Mr. Kintz, Dr. Collins and Mr. Hohl included as Exhibits 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K, which are incorporated herein by reference.