Board & Advisors

The legitimacy layer. Per 7-foundation playbook: “credibility pivot” = recruiting professional governance early.

Board of Directors

HK CLG requires minimum 2 directors + 1 company secretary. One director may also serve as the secretary; a sole-director CLG is not permitted.

Day 1 (incorporation, 2 directors minimum):

  • Egor Lyfar — Founding Director + Chairman + Company Secretary
  • 2nd Founding Director — TBD before NNC1G filing. Candidates: Vladislava Lyfar; or accelerated independent recruit (finance/legal background).

Year 1 target (3 directors minimum, broader board):

  • Egor (founder, chairman)
  • 1 independent director — finance/legal background
  • 1 independent director — clinical/scientific background

Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)

Confirmed:

  • Jeffrey Holt, PhD — Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. Cochlear gene therapy world expert. Verbal yes 2026-03-31. Letter pending → index.

Targets:

  • Yilai Shu, MD/PhD — Fudan University, Eye & ENT Hospital of Shanghai. China’s leading cochlear gene therapy clinician. Asian-network anchor.
  • 1-2 more SAB members in Year 1 (US-based researcher, clinical geneticist, registry-design expert)

Charters and bylaws

  • governance/sab-charter.md (to write — 1-pager, term, scope, no-comp, expected ask cadence)
  • governance/board-bylaws.md (to write — derived from HK CLG AoA)
  • governance/coi-policy.md — see Legal & Compliance

Meeting cadence

  • Board: minimum quarterly. Minutes filed in governance/{YYYY-MM-DD}-board-minutes.md.
  • SAB: semi-annual + ad hoc when reviewing grant applications.

People files

Connections