On November 29, 2023, the Board of Directors of Chimerix, Inc. promoted Michelle LaSpaluto to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective December 1, 2023. Prior to her promotion as the Company's Chief Financial Officer of the Company, Ms. LaSpaluto, age 49, served as the Company's Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning and Investor Relations since October 2019, as Executive Director of Financial Planning, Analysis and Investor Relations from January 2016 to October 2019, and as Senior Director of Accounting from June 2011 to October 2019. Ms. LaSpaluto has over 25 years of experience in a range of financial, accounting, and project planning roles.

Prior to joining the Company, Ms. LaSpaluto was the senior director of accounting at AlphaVax, Inc. and started her career at Coopers & Lybrand in Detroit before transferring to Raleigh with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP. Ms. LaSpaluto received her M.B.A. from East Carolina University and her B.S. in Accounting from Michigan State University.