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NovoCure Ltd

For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 27, 2025.

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FY2024 · Filed Feb 27, 2025

NVCR$12.53-5.6%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

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Information about our Executive Officers

Our executive officers are elected by and serve at the discretion of our board of directors. The following table lists information about our executive officers:

NameAgePosition
Ashley Cordova46Chief Executive Officer
William Doyle62Executive Chairman and Director
Barak Ben-Arye49General Counsel
Christoph Brackmann51Chief Financial Officer
Francis Leonard45Executive Vice President, President Novocure Oncology
Nicolas Leupin51Chief Medical Officer
Mukund Paravasthu55Chief Operating Officer
Michael Puri55Chief Human Resources Officer
Uri Weinberg47Chief Innovation Officer

Ashley Cordova has been our Chief Executive Officer since January 1, 2025. From September 2020 to December 2024, Ms. Cordova served as our Chief Financial Officer and from October 2018 to August 2020, she served as our Senior Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations. Ms. Cordova joined us in June 2014 as Director of Global Treasury. In March 2015, she became our Senior Director, Investor Relations and Global Treasury, and in July 2016, she became our Vice President, Finance and Investor Relations. Prior to joining us, Ms. Cordova served in various financial roles at Zoetis Inc. from 2012 to 2014 and Pfizer Inc. from 2005 to 2012. Ms. Cordova graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Music and Business from Furman University, and earned her International Master of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.

William Doylehas served as our Executive Chairman since 2016, as Chairman of the Board since 2009 and as a member of our Board of Directors since 2004. Mr. Doyle has been the managing director of WFD Ventures LLC, a private venture capital firm he co-founded, since 2002. Prior to 2002, Mr. Doyle was a member of Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group Operating Committee and was Vice President, Licensing and

Acquisitions. While at Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Doyle was also chairman of the Medical Devices Research and Development Council, and Worldwide president of Biosense-Webster, Inc. and a member of the board of directors of Cordis Corporation and Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Johnson & Johnson’s venture capital subsidiary. Earlier in his career, Mr. Doyle was a management consultant in the healthcare group of McKinsey & Company. Mr. Doyle is also a member of the Governing Board of the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance. From 2014 to 2016 he was a member of the investment team at Pershing Square Capital Management L.P., a private investment firm and from November 2016 to January 2021, Mr.Doyle served as the Executive Chairman of BlinkHealth LLC, which has developed a pharmacy-as-a-service, e-commerce platform. Mr. Doyle has been a director of Elanco Animal Health, Inc. since 2020 and ProKidney, Inc. since 2022. Mr. Doyle previously served as a director of Optinose, Inc., a commercial-stage specialty pharmaceuticals company, from 2004 to 2020 and director of Minerva Neurosciences, Inc., from 2017 to 2023. Mr. Doyle holds an S.B. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Doyle serves on Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors and MIT’s Institute of Medical Engineering & Science Visiting Committee.

Barak Ben-Arye has been our General Counsel since April 2022 and prior to that was our Vice President, EMEA Counsel since June 2019 and our Senior Director, EMEA Counsel since joining us in 2018. Mr. Ben-Arye served as the Chief Executive Officer of Gaash Business and Agriculture, Cooperative Agricultural Society Ltd., an Israeli cooperative association engaged in industry, agriculture, commerce, real estate and tourism, from 2014 to 2018. Prior to joining Gaash, he worked for Raved, Magriso, Benkel & Co., an international law firm in Tel Aviv (later merged into Shibolet & Co.) from 2005 to 2013, last serving as a partner in the firm’s hi-tech and life science department. Mr. Ben-Arye earned his Bachelor of Laws and his Bachelor of Business Administration from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya) in Israel.

Christoph Brackmann has been our Chief Financial Officer since January 1, 2025. Mr. Brackmann joined us as a Special Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer in October 2024. Prior to joining Novocure, Mr. Brackmann served as the Senior Vice President of Finance at Moderna Inc. from October 2019 to June 2024. Mr. Brackmann earned his Master of Business Administration from the SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan in 2003 and holds a bachelors degree in Business and Economics from the University of Mannheim.

Frank Leonard has been our Executive Vice President, President Novocure Oncology since January 2024. Mr. Leonard joined Novocure in 2010, and most recently served as President, CNS Cancers U.S. Prior to joining Novocure, Mr. Leonard was a venture capital investor focused on high-impact medical technologies. Mr. Leonard holds an A.B. from Harvard and an M.A. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nicolas Leupin, M.D., Ph.D., has served as our Chief Medical Officer since January 2024. Dr. Leupin previously served as Chief Medical Officer of Molecular Partners AG since August 2019. Prior to that Dr. Leupin served as Chief Medical Officer of argenx from 2016. Dr. Leupin holds an M.D. from the University of Bern, an M.B.A. from Jones International University and a Ph.D. from the Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Mukund Paravasthu has been our Chief Operating Officer since October 2024. Mr. Paravasthu previously served as Novocure’s Senior Vice President of Product Development beginning in April 2022. Mr. Paravasthu joined us in May 2020 as Vice President of Product Development. Before joining Novocure, Mr. Paravasthu held several leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson’s orthopedic franchise, DePuy Synthes, from 2007. Mr. Paravasthu holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Annamalai University, India.

Michael Puri has served as our Chief Human Resources Officer since September 2023. Mr. Puri previously served as Vice President, HR Integration lead at CSL Limited, following the company’s acquisition of Vifor Pharma, where he served as Chief Human Resources Officer from 2015 to 2022. He also served as Chief Human Resources Officer at GrandVision, an international leader in optical retailing, from 2013 to 2015. Mr. Puri has also held leadership positions at Staples, Inc. and UCB S.A., a global biopharma company. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Nantes and his master’s degree in strategic marketing from the Grenoble Business School.

Uri Weinberg, M.D., Ph.D., has served as our Chief Innovation Officer since January 2023, where he is responsible for expanding the innovative potential of Tumor Treating Fields therapy. Since joining Novocure in 2008, he has held several positions throughout his tenure with the Company and most recently held the position of Chief Science Officer since 2020. Dr. Weinberg holds an M.D. Ph.D. from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

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