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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549 
FORM 8-K 
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 6, 2023
KRYSTAL BIOTECH, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Delaware 001-38210 82-1080209
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
 (Commission
File Number)
 (IRS Employer
Identification Number)
2100 Wharton Street, Suite 701
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
(Address of principal executive offices, including Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (412) 586-5830

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(d)    On March 6, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Krystal Biotech, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an increase in the size of the Board from eight (8) directors to nine (9) directors and appointed Catherine Mazzacco as an independent member of the Board to fill the vacancy created by the increase in the size of the Board. Ms. Mazzacco will serve as a Class I director and stand for election at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting. She will serve on the Nominating and Corporate Governance committee of the Board.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Mazzacco and any other persons pursuant to which Ms. Mazzacco was selected as a director of the Company. Furthermore, there are no transactions in which the Company was a participant and in which Ms. Mazzacco had an interest that would be required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

Ms. Mazzacco was CEO & President of LEO Pharma, a privately owned global pharmaceutical company and a member of the Board of Directors from August 2019 to November 2021. Prior this role, Ms. Mazzacco was Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, Life Sciences Division at GE HealthCare, a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics and life sciences company, from February 2018 to May 2019. Before joining GE HealthCare, Ms. Mazzacco spent over 25 years at Abbott Laboratories, a major multinational publicly traded healthcare company where she held several global senior operational and strategic leadership roles, including Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, Abbott Vision Division from 2011 to 2017. Ms. Mazzacco is a Member of the Supervisory Board and Remuneration & Nomination Committee of Servier, a privately owned global pharmaceutical company. Ms. Mazzacco holds a BSE, Engineering, Option Biotechnology from the University of Compiègne in France.

As a non-employee director, Ms. Mazzacco will be entitled to receive compensation as described under “Director Compensation” in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 7, 2022.

Ms. Mazzacco and the Company have entered into an indemnification agreement on the same terms as the Company has previously entered into with its directors, a form of which has been previously filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.

A copy of the press release issued by the Company regarding the appointment of Ms. Mazzacco to its Board is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.


Item 9.01    Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit
No.
  Description
99.1  
104
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
Date: March 6, 2023  KRYSTAL BIOTECH, INC.
  By: /s/ Krish S. Krishnan
  Name: Krish S. Krishnan
  Title: President and Chief Executive Officer


Document
Exhibit 99.1
Krystal Biotech Appoints Catherine Mazzacco
to Board of Directors

March 6, 2023
PITTSBURGH, March 6, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Krystal Biotech, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: KRYS) a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing genetic medicines for patients with rare diseases, today announced the appointment of Catherine Mazzacco to its Board of Directors.
“I am pleased to welcome Catherine to our Board of Directors at this crucial next stage of Krystal’s evolution,” said Krish S. Krishnan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Krystal Biotech, Inc. “As a seasoned executive with extensive valuable pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry experience, I look forward to Catherine’s involvement and assistance in guiding our strategic objectives.”
“After watching the strong execution of Krystal over the past years, I am excited to join the Company’s Board of Directors at this pivotal stage for the Company,” said Ms. Mazzacco. “I look forward to working with the other board members and the leadership team to continue Krystal’s commercialization preparedness while advancing the rest of the pipeline and transform lives with treatments in genetic rare diseases.”
Ms. Mazzacco was Chief Executive Officer and President of LEO Pharma, a privately owned global pharmaceutical company. Prior to this role, Ms. Mazzacco was Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, Life Sciences Division at GE HealthCare. Before joining GE HealthCare, Ms. Mazzacco spent over 25 years at Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) holding global senior operational and strategic leadership roles, including, most recently, Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, Abbott Vision Division. Ms. Mazzacco is a Member of the Supervisory Board and Remuneration & Nomination Committee of Servier, a privately owned global pharmaceutical company. Ms. Mazzacco holds a BSE, Engineering, Option Biotechnology from the University of Compiègne in France.
About Krystal Biotech, Inc.
Krystal Biotech, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRYS) is a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing genetic medicines for patients with rare diseases. The Company’s wide-ranging pipeline is based on its proprietary redosable HSV vector. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Company is led by an experienced management team, is fully-integrated and has core capabilities in viral vector design, vector optimization, gene therapy manufacturing and commercialization. For more information, please visit http://www.krystalbio.com, and follow @KrystalBiotech on LinkedIn and Twitter.


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