clearly the news about Cyrus was unexpected and ve

clearly the news about Cyrus was unexpected and very upsetting.

but......just going back and reading through the bios for Melissa Palmer and Salah Kivlinghn - wow, these are 2 incredibly impressive individuals! Especially given that Melissa is our new CMO - full time position and an integral part of moving everything forward. She brings everything we need to the table - deep clinical understanding of NASH, stints at multiple companies that got the goal line of being acquired - and time at the big companies that bought them - she knows what's important to both sides.

Unclear how involved in the day to day Kivlinghn will be (as he's an advisor), but he brings equally impressive and different deal-making expertise to the table. I hope we can get him very engaged as he seems to have connections and experience that can open doors to the capital markets, figure out the deal-making side of things, etc.

bottom line - to the extent that Cyrus is able to recover and get back in the saddle in somewhat short order, we will be locked and loaded with the A-team - and it may be that what i initially interpreted as a negative event (and to be clear, from a personal standpoint it is a negative thing - not trying to be callous) turns out to be a pivotal / catalyst period for us to move to the next level here.