TENAX THERAPEUTICS, INC.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

The following table sets forth information concerning our executive officers as of March 10, 2026:

Christopher T. Giordano joined the Company as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our Board of Directors in July 2021 and became President and Chief Executive Officer in October 2021. From March 2018 to July 2021, he served as President of IQVIA Biotech LLC and IQVIA MedTech Inc., a provider of integrated clinical and commercial solutions to medical device and small biotech companies, where he led an executive team that managed a clinical trial portfolio of several hundred active projects during his three years of leadership. Prior to that role, from August 2008 to March 2018, Mr. Giordano held roles of increasing responsibility at Quintiles Transnational Holdings Inc., a provider of pharmaceutical outsourcing services (acquired by IMS Health Holdings, Inc. in October 2016 to become IQVIA Holdings Inc.), and was most recently Global Vice President of the cardiovascular, renal, and metabolic group. From January 2001 to July 2008, Mr. Giordano served in various sales and operational roles at PPD, Inc., a global clinical research organization. Mr. Giordano holds a B.A. (summa cum laude) in English from the University of San Diego and a M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thomas McGauley joined the Company as our Interim Chief Financial Officer in December 2024. Mr. McGauley of Danforth Advisors, LLC is a senior life sciences financial executive with an extensive background in finance, life science companies, SEC reporting, and fundraising. Since July 2021, Mr. McGauley has been a member of Danforth Advisors, LLC, providing executive financial services to several public and private companies. From 2018 to 2022, Mr. McGauley was a director at CBIZ in their accounting advisory practice. Prior to that, from 2009 to 2018, he served as the chief financial officer and a consultant to several public and private life science companies, including Galectin Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: GALT), where he was the interim chief financial officer from 2012 to 2013 and the company’s financial/accounting and SEC consultant from 2009 to 2012. Prior to that, he was a senior financial executive for deCODE genetics, Inc., a formerly Nasdaq-listed company. Mr. McGauley began his financial career in public accounting working with several accounting firms, and was most recently a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP specializing in life sciences and technology companies. Prior to that, he was an officer in the U.S. Army and later the MA National Guard, ending his military career as a captain and company commander. Mr. McGauley holds a B.S.B.A in Accounting from Stonehill College and is a Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts.

Stuart Rich, MDhas served as our Chief Medical Officer since January 2021 and a director since February 2021. Dr. Rich joined the Company from PHPrecisionMed Inc. (PHPM), where he was a co-founder and held the positions of Chief Executive Officer and Director from October 2018 until PHPM’s merger with the Company in January 2021. Beginning July 2015, Dr. Rich has served as Professor of Medicine (and since 2021, Professor Emeritus) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He was co-founder and a Trustee of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute from 2006 until 2023, a U.K. based charity. From July 2015 until January 2021 he also served as the Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern University, and since January 2006 he has served as a Director of the Cardiovascular Medical and Research Foundation, a U.S. based charity. He was a standing member of the Cardiovascular and Renal Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2002 through 2013. Prior to Northwestern University, Dr. Rich was Professor of Medicine at the Section of Cardiology of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine from September 2004 to July 2015. Dr. Rich also served as the Chief Medical Officer (part-time) of United Therapeutics from October 2003 until December 2004. He was Professor of Medicine at the Rush Heart Institute of the Rush University School of Medicine from July 1996 to September 2004 and Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Cardiology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago from July 1980 to July 1996. Dr. Rich received his B.S. in Biology at the University of Illinois and his M.D. at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, and he completed his residency in medicine at the Washington University of St. Louis and his fellowship in cardiology at the University of Chicago.

DIRECTORS

Gerald T. Proehl, Director and Chairman

Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Directors, Dermata Therapeutics, Inc.

June Almenoff, MD, PhD, Director

Member of the Board of Directors, Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Co-founder and Executive, Chair, portfolio company, 82 Venture Studios (Exec. Venture Partner) and Member of Investment Advisory Board, Harrington Discovery Institute

Michael Davidson, MD, Director

Chief Executive Officer, New Amsterdam Pharma B.V.

Declan Doogan, MD, Director

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, Juvenescence Ltd.

Christopher T. Giordano, Chief Executive Officer, President and Director

Tenax Therapeutics, Inc.

Robyn M. Hunter, Director

Global Chief Financial Officer, Sotio Biotech Inc.

Stuart Rich, MD, Chief Medical Officer and Director

Tenax Therapeutics, Inc.