EVFM 2018 Proxy Statement

29 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS (Notice Item 1) The Board of Directors has nominated Kim P. Kamdar, Ph.D. and Colin Rutherford for election at the Annual Meeting. The Board of Directors currently consists of seven members, classified into three classes as follows: Saundra Pelletier and Thomas Lynch constitute a class with a term ending in 2020; Gillian Greer, Ph.D., William Hall, Ph.D., M.D. and Tony O’Brien constitute a class with a term ending in 2019; and Kim P. Kamdar, Ph.D. and Colin Rutherford constitute a class with a term which expires at the upcoming Annual Meeting. At each Annual Meeting of stockholders, directors are elected for a full term of three years to succeed those directors whose terms are expiring. The Board of Directors has voted to nominate Kim P. Kamdar, Ph.D. and Colin Rutherford for election at the Annual Meeting for a term of three years to serve until the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and until their respective successors are elected and qualified or until their death, resignation or removal. The Class II directors (Gillian Greer, Ph.D., William Hall, Ph.D., M.D. and Tony O’Brien) and the Class III directors (Saundra Pelletier and Thomas Lynch) will serve until the Annual Meetings of Stockholders to be held in 2019 and 2020, respectively, and until their respective successors have been elected and qualified or until their death, resignation or removal. Unless authority to vote for any of these nominees is withheld, the shares represented by the enclosed proxy will be voted FOR the election as directors of Kim P. Kamdar, Ph.D. and Colin Rutherford. In the event that either nominee becomes unable or unwilling to serve, the shares represented by the enclosed proxy will be voted for the election of such other person as the Board of Directors may recommend in that nominee’s place. We have no reason to believe that any nominee will be unable or unwilling to serve as a director. Each director nominee must be elected by an affirmative vote of a plurality of shares present at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THE ELECTION OF KIM P. KAMDAR, PH.D., AND COLIN RUTHERFORD AS DIRECTORS, AND PROXIES SOLICITED BY THE BOARD WILL BE VOTED IN FAVOR THEREOF UNLESS A STOCKHOLDER HAS INDICATED OTHERWISE ON THE PROXY.