James Coulston, CPA

Position: Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Coulston has served as ProKidney’s Chief Financial Officer since January 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Coulston served as ProKidney’s Senior Vice President, Finance, from January 2021 to December 2021 and ProKidney’s Vice President, Finance, from February 2019 to December 2020. Before joining ProKidney, from August 2015 to January 2019, Mr. Coulston served as the Executive Director, Finance, of Banner Life Sciences LLC, a privately held clinical‑stage pharmaceutical company combining a proven history of formulation expertise with proprietary technologies to create specialty pharmaceuticals that solve real unmet clinical needs, where Mr. Coulston oversaw the financial, human resources, and IT activities. From 2007 to 2015, Mr. Coulston held finance roles of increasing responsibility at Targacept Inc. (Nasdaq: TRGT), a clinical‑stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel NNR Therapeutics™, including Senior Director, Finance, and Controller. Mr. Coulston earned his B.S. and master’s degree in accounting from North Carolina State University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of North Carolina.