Citius Pharmaceuticals Inc

Robert J. Smith is an accomplished biopharmaceutical executive who has driven commercial, financial, and operational success at leading pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Wyeth (formerly NYSE: WYE), for more than 35 years. Mr. Smith’s extensive industry expertise has been honed by decades of executive leadership roles in business development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial strategy, and research and development. For the past eight years (May 2016 to January 2024), Mr. Smith served as Senior Vice President, Global Gene Therapy Business of Pfizer and was responsible for managing and leading its gene therapy business and the rare disease early commercial development activities in partnership with the rare disease research unit. During his tenure at Pfizer, Mr. Smith also served as Senior Vice President, Business Development (October 2009 to May 2016) and led the business development and strategic transactions teams supporting its worldwide research and development organization. During his tenure with Pfizer, he also led the business development and strategy teams for Pfizer’s global animal health, Capsugel, a former subsidiary of Pfizer, consumer healthcare and nutrition business units, as well as the alliance management function supporting all of Pfizer’s global biopharmaceutical business units and the worldwide research and development organization. Mr. Smith joined Pfizer from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2009, following Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth, where he was Senior Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions (April 2008 to October 2009) responsible for leading and managing Wyeth’s global mergers and acquisitions group. Prior to that, in his role at Wyeth as Senior Vice President of Global Licensing, he completed a wide variety of transactions in support of Wyeth’s commercial and research and development divisions. Mr. Smith has served as a member of the Board of Directors of private companies AM Pharma B.V. (observer), Bamboo Therapeutics Inc. (January 2016 to August 2016), and Ignite Immunotherapeutics Inc. (December 2016 to October 2019), as well as Iterum Therapeutics Limited (observer) (Nasdaq: ITRM). Mr. Smith also serves or has served as a member of Life Sciences PA – the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Association, Bio NJ – the New Jersey State Biotechnology Association (since 2021), the Duke Margolis Value Based Agreements Advisory Board, the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine (ARM) (since 2018) and the Foundation for Cell and Gene Medicine (FCGM) (since 2019). He is a member of the Executive Committees of the ARM and FCGM Board of Directors and serves as the Chairman of the ARM Board’s Governance and Operations Committee. Mr. Smith is also a member of the Business Advisory Board of Ocugen, Inc., the Investment Advisory Committee for Venture Investors LLC, Madison, Wisconsin, and the Cell and Gene Therapy Scientific Advisory Board of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Mr. Smith obtained a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester and an M.B.A. in Finance and Corporate Accounting from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

The Board believes that Mr. Smith is qualified to serve as a director because of his extensive background with public companies and his business experience. Mr. Smith was brought to the attention of the Nominating and Governance Committee for consideration by Mr. Mazur, our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman.