Biography

Non-Executive Director
Chair, Audit Committee
Member, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Christine St.Clare joined the Board of AquaBounty in May 2014. She is a former Audit Partner at KPMG LLP serving publicly traded companies until 2005, after which she transferred to the Advisory Practice, working in the Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Practice until her retirement in 2010. She also served a four-year term on KPMG’s Board of Directors, where she chaired KPMG’s Audit and Finance Committee for three of the four years. She served on the Board of Directors for Tilray, Inc. from their 2018 IPO through April 2021. At Tilray, she chaired the Audit Committee and was a member of the Nominating & Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee. She formerly served on the boards of Fibrocell Science, Inc., a company that specialized in the development of personalized biologics, and Polymer Group, Inc., a global manufacturer of engineered materials. Fibrocell was a NASDAQ listed company and Polymer was a Blackstone portfolio company with publicly traded debt. For Fibrocell and Polymer, she served as the Audit Committee Chair until their respective sales to strategic buyers. Christine holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from California State University at Long Beach and has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant in California, Texas and Georgia. Her background in accounting and support of publicly held companies, as well as her experience with biotechnology, makes her well suited for service on our Board.