Mr. Manning has served as the Chairman of the Verrica Pharmaceuticals Board of Directors since December 2017, and as a member since December 2015. He is the Chairman and CEO of PBM Capital Group, LLC, a private-equity investment firm he founded in 2010, focused on the healthcare- and life-science-related companies. Prior to that, Mr. Manning founded PBM Products in 1997, a producer of infant formula and baby food, which he sold to Perrigo Corporation in 2010. He was previously a Director of Dova Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company that was purchased by Sobi, as well as various private companies, and has served on the Boards of Directors at Perrigo Corporation, Concordia Healthcare Corporation and AveXis, Inc. Mr. Manning received his BS in Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts.