Valneva SE announced that all the resolutions recommended by the Management Board were approved by the shareholders at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on June 23, 2022 in Paris. Bpifrance Participations was appointed to Valneva's Supervisor Board and will be represented by Maïlys Ferrère. Ms. Ferrère, a French national, is Director of Large Venture Investments at Bpifrance, France's state-owned investment bank.

In her role at Bpifrance, she sits on various boards of Euronext-listed companies. Before joining Bpifrance Large Venture in 2013, Ms. Ferrère was an Investment Director at the Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement. Prior to this, Ms. Ferrère had a career in the banking industry, focusing on equity capital markets in various financial institutions.

She graduated from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. James Edward Connolly, an American national, was also appointed to Valneva's Supervisory Board. Mr. Connolly is a seasoned business executive with more than three decades of experience in the life sciences industry.

Since 2013, Mr. Connolly has been serving on a number of boards for a variety of vaccine, biopharmaceutical and investment organizations. From 2010 to 2013, Mr. Connolly was President and CEO of Aeras (now IAVI.) Prior to this, he had a long and successful 24-year career at Wyeth (now Pfizer), where he held a series of senior roles, the last two of which were Executive Vice President and General Manager, Wyeth Vaccines and President, Wyeth Canada. During his tenure leading Wyeth Vaccines, Mr. Connolly played a leading role building the company's vaccines business into one of the top four global manufacturers and creating the first true blockbuster vaccine, Prevnar, with sales in excess of $3 billion.