Park Square is pleased to announce the placement of Mark Herbert as Vice President, Business Development at Varda Space Industries. Varda is a pioneering technology company leveraging the advantages of microgravity in the development and manufacture of small molecule and biologic drugs. The company is building free-flying orbital satellites to formulate and manufacture pharmaceuticals in microgravity and is developing novel re-entry capsules to make this research broadly accessible to the biopharma community.

Herbert most recently served as Chief Executive Officer at Vasa Therapeutics. Previously, he served as Chief Business Officer at Scientist.com and spent his early career in various business development roles at Arcturus Therapeutics, WuXi AppTec, and Seragon Pharmaceuticals.

He received his B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Kent State University and Indiana University, respectively.

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