SmartKem, Inc. (SMTK)

Ian Jenks has run SmartKem as chief executive and president since December 2017 and joined its board in February 2021; the filing credits him with more than 30 years of board level experience in industrial technology. Barbra C. Keck has been chief financial officer since December 2022, and sat on the board from February 2021 to November 2022, coming from the same job at Deverra Therapeutics. Jonathan Watkins became chief operating officer in March 2025, after consulting for the company from July 2024; he had run Impression Technologies Limited from August 2016 to June 2024, and that company entered voluntary liquidation in June 2024. Simon Ogier has been chief technology officer since June 2019 and held the same post before that at NeuDrive Limited, another organic semiconductor materials developer. 12345

The board is small and long serving. Klaas de Boer has been a director since February 2021 and sat on SmartKem Limited's own board from 2017; he was managing partner of the venture capital firm Entrepreneurs Fund Management LLP from January 2008 until June 2021. Steven DenBaars, a professor of materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joined in June 2022. Melisa A. Denis joined in November 2023, after a career as a partner at KPMG from 1998 to October 2020. Sriram Peruvemba joined in July 2023 and had advised the company as a consultant since September 2019, which is why the board counts him, along with Jenks, as not independent. 67891011

This is a very small company. As of April 1, 2026 it counted 28 full time employees and one part time employee across the United Kingdom, Taiwan and the United States, with no collective bargaining agreement. Selling is thinner still: a direct sales force of one employee in Taiwan, helped by two technology transfer engineers and sales representation in China, with two more employees in Taiwan supporting the work at the Industrial Technology Research Institute. Fourteen people have filed Forms 3, 4 and 5 as officers or directors since the record begins, nine of them in the last fifteen months. 12131415