You should refer to “Nominees for Election as Directors” above for information about our Chief Executive Officer, Gaurav Shah, M.D. Biographical information for our other executive officers, as of March 24, 2026, is set forth below.
Sarbani Chaudhuri, M.B.A. joined Rocket as Chief Commercial & Medical Affairs Officer in April 2025. Ms. Chaudhuri, age 50, most recently served as the Vice President at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine leading hematology from February 2022 through March 2025, where she was a driving force in J&J becoming the top hematology company worldwide in 2024. She led exponential growth of the multi-billion-dollar business, building an industry-leading multiple myeloma powerhouse with DARZALEX® and launching pioneering cell therapy and bispecifics CARVYKTI®, TECVAYLI®, TALVEY®, while expanding into lymphoma and leukemia with a next-generation pipeline. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, Ms. Chaudhuri served as Global Head of ENHERTU® and Breast Cancer at AstraZeneca from June 2020 through November 2021, where she established an unparalleled leadership foundation through unlocking multiple HER2-directed tumors. Before AstraZeneca, Ms. Chaudhuri worked at Pfizer from January 2014 through June 2020 in several roles of increasing responsibility. Earlier in her career, Ms. Chaudhuri also worked at Novartis, where she held several leadership roles within Novartis’ U.S. sales and marketing organization, playing a key role in strengthening the U.S. go-to-market model. Ms. Chaudhuri received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from VJTI, University of Mumbai, a Master of Business Management from XLRI, Institute of Management Studies, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on healthcare management.
Syed Rizvi, M.D., joined Rocket as Chief Medical Officer in September 2025. Dr. Rizvi most recently served as Chief Medical Officer at Poseida Therapeutics, an allogeneic cell therapies and genetic medicines company, where he advanced Poseida’s promising pipeline of allogeneic CAR-T and gene therapy programs to the point of the company’s acquisition by Roche in January 2025. Before Poseida, Syed was Chief Medical Officer at Caribou Biosciences, an allogeneic cell therapy company, where he was responsible for overall strategy and execution of all clinical development programs. Prior to this, he served as Chief Medical Officer at Chimeric Therapeutics, where he helped build the company’s pipeline by licensing programs from leading universities and progressing existing programs through the clinical development process. Previously, Dr. Rizvi held a series of global clinical leadership roles of increasing responsibility at Legend Biotech, Celgene, Novartis, Merck, and Genta Inc. Dr. Rizvi received his M.D. from Dow Medical College and spent several years in direct patient care before joining Saint Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center in New York. He has authored multiple scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, and the European Hematology Association, among other professional organizations.
Christopher Stevens, joined Rocket as Chief Operating Officer in July 2025. Mr. Stevens most recently served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Patient Supply Officer from October 2022 through July 2025 at Spark Therapeutics, a private gene therapy company, where he successfully led teams across manufacturing, supply chain, quality, compliance, engineering, EHS, and facilities, playing a key role in delivering gene therapies to patients globally. During his tenure at Spark, he was also Head of Manufacturing from February 2017 through April 2020, through the approval and launch of Luxturna, the first gene therapy approved for a genetic disease in the U.S. and EU. Mr. Stevens later served as Asset General Manager, from April 2020 through May 2022, for the Hemophilia A program and subsequently Head of Product Strategy, from May 2022 through October 2022, overseeing program development for Spark’s entire portfolio. Prior to Spark, Mr. Stevens was at GlaxoSmithKline, a global biopharma company, from January 2013 through February 2017, where he led teams focused on strategy, operations, and planning, as well as GMP clinical manufacturing operations including process transfer and cell banking. Earlier in his career he held roles of increasing responsibility at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a global biopharma company, from June 2001 through January 2013, in process engineering, manufacturing and supply chain in Massachusetts, Indiana and Puerto Rico. Mr. Stevens currently serves as President of the Board at A Haven – a non-profit family grief center in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He received his M.S. in Industrial Management from the University of Southern Indiana and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.
Jonathan Schwartz, M.D. joined Rocket as Chief Medical Officer in January 2018 in connection with the Reverse Merger. Dr. Schwartz served as Chief Medical Officer from January 2018 until he transitioned to Chief Gene Therapy Officer in April 2023. In March 2024, Dr. Schwartz became Rocket’s Chief Medical & Gene Therapy Officer. Dr. Schwartz joined Private Rocket in January 2016 and served as Chief Medical Officer and Head of Clinical Development until the Reverse Merger. Dr. Schwartz has over 20 years of combined clinical practice and
