Mr. Matthew Pauls, also known as Matt, has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Cortendo AB since August 2014. Mr. Pauls has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Strongbridge Biopharma plc since August 25, 2014. Prior to joining Strongbridge Biopharma in 2014, Mr. Pauls served as the Chief Commercial Officer of Insmed Incorporated from April 1, 2013 to August 2014. In this role, he built out the global commercial strategy and organization and led the global technical operations efforts. He played a key role in investor interactions and financings. He has more than 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including senior-level leadership positions, with an emphasis on general management, global product launches, commercial operations, business development, clinical development and technical operations at leading pharmaceutical companies including Shire Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson. Prior to Shire, he served with Bristol-Myers Squibb as Senior Director of Payor Marketing for their Neuroscience Franchise. Mr. Pauls spent eight years with Johnson & Johnson in positions of increasing responsibility in their CNS Franchise, including Global Commercial Leader and Director of Strategic Marketing. He was with Shire Pharmaceuticals, served as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Commercial Operations, Shire Regenerative Medicine. In this role, he led the global commercial function of a business unit with a staff of approximately 300 including a 200-person U.S. sales team. He served as Vice President, Product General Manager, Shire Specialty Pharmaceuticals Behavioral Health Business Unit, where he had P&L responsibility for Vyvanse(R) in the U.S. and Intuniv(R) globally. He began his career as a pharmaceutical sales representative for Carter Wallace. He served as the Chairman of the Board at Mast Therapeutics, Inc from October 2015 to April 2017. He has been Director at Savara Inc. since October 2015. He has been a Director of Cortendo AB since September 2015; Strongbridge Biopharma plc since September 4, 2015 and Mast Therapeutics, Inc. since October 2015. Mr. Pauls is a volunteer board member of the Pennington School in Pennington, New Jersey and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Philadelphia. Mr. Pauls holds BS and MBA degrees from Central Michigan University and a JD from Michigan State University College of Law.