Mr. Peter Fernandes, M. Pharm, has been the Chief Regulatory and Safety Officer of Bellerophon Therapeutics, Inc. since May 2015. Mr. Fernandes served as Chief Regulatory Officer and Vice President of Bellerophon Therapeutics LLC since May 20, 2015. Mr. Fernandes served as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality US at OptiNose US Inc. since joining in 2011. Mr. Fernandes was responsible for the US regulatory strategy development, FDA negotiations and regulatory filing for OptiNose US' unique range of bi-directional nasal drug-delivery products. Mr. Fernandes was the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Ikaria, Inc. from October 2012 to May 2015. Previously, he led Regulatory Affairs for OptiNose, Inc. from 2010 to 2012 and was the Drug Regulatory Affairs Respiratory Franchise Head for Novartis Pharmaceuticals AG from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Fernandes has over 22 years of US and global pharmaceutical development experience. He has served in several senior leadership positions, as Head of the US Development Site at Nycomed, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance at Altana Pharma and Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Novartis. In addition, he has had extensive hands on regulatory and project leadership experience at Boehringer Ingelheim, Scios-Nova and Wyeth-Ayerst. Mr. Fernandes has a proven track record with successfully leading cross-functional teams resulting in US and global approvals of products that are now well-recognized blockbusters. His first success at Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) was with FLOMAX, leading the NDA filing, one cycle approval and trade name negotiations with the US FDA in 1996. His 12 years of dedicated regulatory support for SPIRIVA HandiHaler, starting from its pre-IND phase in 1993 to its global NDA filings resulting in approvals in US, EU, Japan and 40 other countries by 2005. For this, he received three prestigious BI President's Awards for his exemplary leadership. In 2005, as part of the Altana Pharma team, Mr. Fernandes completed SPIRIVA's first eCTD for OMNARIS in allergic rhinitis resulting in a one cycle FDA approval in 2006. He was instrumental in re-designing the regulatory strategy of a previously failed Phase III program for DAXAS in COPD. This re-designed Phase III program finally resulted in the EU approval in 2010 and is now anticipating US FDA approval. Mr. Fernandes has had accountability for a diverse spectrum of products -- biologics, small molecules and drug-device combinations -- across a wide-range of therapeutic areas -- respiratory, cardiovascular, urology, gastrointestinal and oncology. He has led four FDA Advisory Committee Meetings (ACM) and delivered the opening regulatory presentations at two of these meetings. He has established an efficient working relationship with the FDA Staff at both the Division and Office levels. Mr. Fernandes holds a Masters in Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology from the Grant Medical College, University of Bombay. He holds a B. Pharm. from the K.M. Kundnani College of Pharmacy, at the University of Bombay in India.