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None  Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please send the good word—or the bad—from your shop to Max Bayer or Gabrielle Masson, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.  Frazier departs Merck after 30 years, leaving the executive chairman role for CEO Davis Merck After 30 years at Merck & Co., Ken Frazier is calling it a tenure at the New Jersey Big Pharma. It’s a career that began in 1992, with Frazier elevating himself up the corporate ladder, including positions as general counsel at the company. This culminated in his being named president and CEO in 2011, a position he held for 10 years before handing the baton over to Rob Davis. But since then Frazier has remained executive chairman of the company’s board. Now, that too will be handed over to Davis, effective Dec. 1.  In addition to his position at Merck, Frazier sits or has sat on the board of a number of other companies and organizations including Exxon, the National Constitution Center, General Catalyst and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He founded OneTen, an organization aimed at hiring Black employees without college degrees. Earlier this year, he joined the board of Eikon Therapeutics, a biotech startup in the Bay Area that’s poached a lot of top talent from Merck. On Thursday's earnings call, Davis thanked Frazier for his contributions to Merck and its employees. “Speaking personally, I'm deeply grateful for the inspiration, mentorship and support Ken has provided to me,” he said. Release GSK vaccine chief leaves amid reorganization of the medicines team GSK Gone from GSK is Hal Barron, M.D., the company’s longtime R&D chief. Joining him will be the company’s president of vaccines and global health Roger Connor. The company announced this week that Connor would be departing to seek a new role in healthcare outside of biopharma. The move comes as the company is bridging together its “medicines and vaccines manufacturing networks” and their associated commercial operations. The commercial strategy of the vaccines unit will now be headed by Chief Commercial Officer Luke Miels.  In recent years, GSK has worked to distinguish itself in the vaccines world, namely with its winning jab Shingrix to treat shingles as well as its meningococcal program. But the company is also in a neck-and-neck race with Pfizer to bring an RSV shot to market, with GSK recently boasting positive phase 3 results.  Regis Simard, president of the global supply chain, will now oversee the supply of both vaccines and other drugs while ViiV's CEO will take over the global health unit. Fierce Pharma Klein bolts CRISPR after almost 7 years CRISPR Therapeutics CRISPR Therapeutics is in the market for a new development chief with Lawrence Klein, Ph.D., headed elsewhere after nearly seven years at the company. The company says Klein is leaving to pursue external opportunities in the field but will remain on through the end of the year. Klein joined the company after more than five years at consulting behemoth McKinsey & Co., where he was an associate principal. He’s also a member of the board of Jasper Therapeutics and Dyne Therapeutics. As this column is authored by a pair of University of Wisconsin – Madison alums, we’d be remiss if we didn’t note that Klein is as well, with a degree in biochemistry and physics (go Badgers).  Klein’s departure comes at a critical moment for CRISPR Therapeutics, as it's slated to begin the approval application process with the FDA for its lead program, exa-cel, in November. The company expects to complete the filing by the end of the first quarter in 2023. It also has five other clinical-stage programs and others nearing clinical trials. CRISPR says a search is underway to find Klein’s replacement. Release > Acadia Pharmaceuticals President Srdjan (Serge) Stankovic, M.D., will be retiring at the end of the year. Stankovic has been with the company for seven years, leading R&D, and medical and scientific efforts. A search for his successor is ongoing. Release > Arturo Molina, M.D., is stepping down from his role as chief medical officer at Sutro Biopharma, effective Nov. 4. Molina will be pursuing other opportunities, according to Sutro, and CEO Bill Newell will oversee all clinical activities while the biotech searches for a replacement. Release > Jens Würthner, M.D., Ph.D., is changing direction, leaving ADC Therapeutics to take up a post at Scenic Biotech as chief medical officer. Before that, Würthner also led clinical development programs at Novartis, GSK and AstraZeneca. Release > Edward Fang, M.D., will be joining Adaptive Phage Therapeutics as the infectious disease biotech’s chief medical officer. Fang has previously served as chief medical officer at MicuRx Pharmaceuticals and Adenium Biotech, and before that held roles at Trius Therapeutics and Cerexa. Release > Enveda Biosciences has selected Mark Deeg, M.D., Ph.D., to serve as its chief medical officer. Deeg joins the biotech from Cullgen, where he was EVP and head of global clinical development. He also spent more than a decade with Big Pharma Eli Lilly. Release > Nathalie Franchimont, M.D., Ph.D., is leaving Biogen to serve as Nimbus Therapeutics’ chief medical officer. At the Big Pharma, Franchimont most recently served as SVP and head of the multiple sclerosis and immunology development unit. Before Biogen, she held roles at Amgen. Release > New biotech Normunity has emerged with $65 million and Rachel Humphrey, M.D., at the helm. Humphrey is the company’s founding CEO, with more than 25 years of experience, including leading the development of Bristol Myers Squibb’s Yervoy, AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi and Bayer’s Nexavar. Her biotech leadership roles include chief medical officer at Black Diamond Therapeutics, CytomX and Mirati. Fierce Biotech > Clinical-stage biotech Anokion is shaking up its team with several new executive appointments. Alison Long, M.D., Ph.D., who most recently served as Kaleido BioSciences’ chief medical officer, will fill the same role at Anokion. Stephanie Ann Haller has been appointed SVP of clinical operations after departing from her role as senior director of clinical operations and therapeutic area lead of nephrology at AstraZeneca’s Alexion. Glenn Booma, who has spent nearly 10 years serving as a consultant for life sciences companies, has been appointed chief strategy officer, while Kristie Grebe, Ph.D., has been promoted to SVP of immunology and translational medicine from her former role as VP of clinical and translational development. Release > Health tech company Element Science has tapped Trish Howell to fill the company’s newly created chief operating officer spot. Howell joins from Avail Medsystems, where she served as VP of operations. Release > Cassava Sciences is expanding its leadership team, adding Christopher Cook to its team in the newly created role of SVP and general counsel. Cook joins the neurodegenerative disease biotech from eye care company Alcon. Release > Triumvira Immunologics has appointed Robert Williamson to be president and chief business officer. Most recently, Williamson served as president and CEO of BioTheryx, and has also held leadership roles at PharmAkea, ATXCo, Arriva Pharmaceuticals, Eos Biotechnology and DoubleTwist. Release > George Kemble, Ph.D., will be stepping down from his CEO position at Sagimet Biosciences, transitioning to executive chair of the board as David Happel takes the head role. Happel joins from AI-tech company Cognoa, where he led as president and CEO  Release > PaxMedica has tapped Stefan Schwabe, M.D., Ph.D., as chief medical officer to oversee its development of antipurinergic drug therapies. Schwabe joins from Supernus Pharmaceuticals, where he was also chief medical officer, along with EVP of R&D. Release

→ According to an SEC filing , Aurinia ’s EVP of research Robert Huizinga and CMO Neil Solomons are both walking away by Halloween, and while no explanations are given, details of their severance packages were provided. Huizinga had spent the last nine years at Aurinia after the Isotechnika merger: first as VP, clinical affairs, then as EVP, corporate development before his latest promotion in 2020. Solomons co-founded Aurinia a decade ago and used to be VP of R&D with Vifor Pharma . The Peter Greenleaf -led Aurinia just launched its “Get Uncomfortable” ad campaign , urging lupus nephritis patients to schedule checkups with their doctor. → CRISPR Therapeutics COO Lawrence Klein will not return next year “to pursue external opportunities,” but he’ll stay until this year draws to a close. Klein was originally appointed VP, strategy in February 2016, eventually receiving promotions to CBO in 2019 and COO a year later. The search begins for a replacement as CRISPR and Vertex make their case to the FDA for exa-cel , a once-and-done treatment for sickle cell disease and transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia, after getting lapped by bluebird bio with Zynteglo . → Pairing up with Eli Lilly on AMPK activators a couple of weeks ago in a deal that almost reaches the $500 million mark , Nimbus Therapeutics has poached Nathalie Franchimont from Biogen , naming her CMO. Franchimont had recently led the multiple sclerosis and immunology development unit and she held a cornucopia of other positions in her 10 years with Biogen, which is pinning its Alzheimer’s hopes on lecanemab after the Aduhelm debacle. At Amgen , she worked in medical affairs and clinical development, specifically with the bone drug denosumab (now marketed as Xgeva and Prolia ). → Serge Stankovic is set to retire as president of Acadia Pharmaceuticals at the end of the year. A former clinical development exec with Teva and Alkermes , Stankovic was named head of R&D at Acadia in 2015 and president in 2018, helping guide the San Diego biotech to its only approved drug in April 2016. The FDA gave the OK to Nuplazid for Parkinson’s disease psychosis, but Acadia’s been shooting bricks lately in other indications, with CRLs in back-to-back years for dementia- and Alzheimer’s-related psychosis. Upon his retirement, Stankovic will move into a part-time advisory role. → Arturo Molina ’s time is winding down as CMO of antibody-drug conjugate developer Sutro Biopharma , and Peer Review will keep its eyes peeled for his next destination after he leaves on Nov. 4 . Sutro CEO Bill Newell will stand in for him until a permanent successor is found. Molina was VP of oncology scientific innovation at J&J ’s California Innovation Center before he joined Sutro, which struck an ADC deal with Astellas for $90 million upfront in late June. → As biotech stocks were going subterranean, it dawned on Sagimet Biosciences that an IPO wasn’t prudent for them in March. This week there’s a new sheriff in town at the NASH-centered biotech, with Dave Happel taking over for George Kemble as chief executive. Since 2020, Happel had been president and CEO of Cognoa , and in an earlier role, he was EVP of commercial development and strategy for Horizon . With Happel in place, Kemble is sliding into the role of executive chairman, succeeding Westlake Village BioPartners managing director Beth Seidenberg . → It didn’t take long for ex- Biotheryx chief Robert Williamson to find his next gig, landing at T cell-focused Triumvira Immunologics as president and CBO. Williamson was at the controls for Biotheryx when the protein degradation squad garnered a $92 million Series E round in May 2021, and as we told you, he then became chief business and financial officer at OncoMyx in March. Triumvira says it’s constructing a new cell therapy manufacturing facility in South San Francisco for its lead program, TAC01-HER2 , that should open by next year. → Let’s Twist again: Patrick Finn has been promoted to president and COO of DNA synthesis heavyweight Twist Bioscience , which inked a $710 million antibody discovery deal with Boehringer Ingelheim last year. Finn signed on as Twist’s SVP, commercial operations in February 2015 and was elevated to chief commercial officer in 2019. He’s also been VP of sales and marketing for Enzymatics , now known as Qiagen . → Positions are getting filled left and right at antibody radiation-conjugate (ARC) player Actinium : Jenny Hsieh (chief strategy officer) was head of corporate strategy and operations with Immunomedics as it was being sold to Gilead for $21 billion. In March, the large pharma handed out pink slips to 114 staffers that worked out of Immunomedics’ old HQ in Morris Plains, NJ; Sunitha Lakshminarayanan (head of CMC and product development) previously took on the role of executive director, cell therapy process engineering at Bristol Myers Squibb ; Stephen Dressel (VP, strategic finance and analysis) had a 10-year career at Regeneron and just spent a year and a half with Dewpoint Therapeutics as senior director, financial planning & analysis; Peter Baker (director, drug substance/drug products operations) helped manufacture Lutathera and Pluvicto as head of production at Novartis ’ Advanced Accelerator Applications ; and Micah Riskin (director, product steward, manufacturing sciences & technology) has Bristol Myers ties and recently led process development and MSAT for Imvax . But wait, there’s more : Actinium has plucked Akash Nahar (VP, clinical development) from Merck , where he served as global product development lead for hematology; Elaina Haeuber (VP, head of clinical operations) is a veteran of Syneos Health who had been VP of operations at WCG until May; finally, Madhuri Vusirikala (VP, clinical development, bone marrow transplant and cellular therapy) and Patrik Brodin (VP, head of radiation sciences) round out the hiring bonanza. → Cameron Durrant will be on the lookout for another COO and CFO as Tim Morris decamps from both posts at Humanigen and becomes finance chief at Opthea , a retinal disease biotech that will be all set financially for the time being with $170 million in funding through Carlyle and Abingworth ’s Launch Therapeutics and an additional $90 million private placement. The ex-CFO of Iovance and AcelRx just took another board seat at Aquestive Therapeutics over the summer. → As they build a plan around WHIM syndrome drug mavorixafor , X4 Pharmaceuticals has recruited Mark Baldry as chief commercial officer. A former commercial exec at Shire , Biogen and Amicus , Baldry has held this same post at Wave Life Sciences and Freeline Therapeutics . The highs haven’t outweighed the lows this year at X4, scoring a $55 million PIPE but cutting 20% of its staff and pruning the pipeline. → There’s a batch of new execs at Anokion , while the Swiss autoimmune biotech also says that Stephan Kontos will relinquish his CSO duties to chair the scientific advisory board. Alison Long (CMO) once led clinical R&D at Spark and had been the medical chief with now-defunct Kaleido BioSciences ; Glenn Booma (chief strategy officer) is a Genzyme alum who had worked as a life sciences consultant for the past nine years; and Stephanie Haller (SVP, clinical operations) only needs to replace three letters on her business card after parting ways with Alexion , where she was senior director, clinical operations, therapeutic area lead, nephrology. Additionally, Anokion promoted Kristie Grebe from VP, clinical & translational development to SVP, immunology & translational medicine. Pfizer invested $35 million into Anokion’s celiac disease therapy KAN-101 last week. → The glycoproteomics specialists at InterVenn Biosciences have promoted Erwin Estigarribia to president and COO. Estigarribia brought plenty of diagnostics experience before coming to InterVenn in 2019, with stints as an operations exec at CardioDx and Applied Proteomics — and further back, he had a series of leadership roles with Chiron , Novartis and Geron . → We have all sorts of other CMO appointments to discuss, and Edward Kim is first up at Swedish mental illness and addiction disorder biotech Orexo . Kim steps away from Biohaven , where he was head of medical affairs, and he’s a Novartis neuro alum who has further Big Pharma connections as the former schizophrenia therapeutic area leader at J&J’s Janssen . → PaxMedica ’s modest IPO may have been under the radar a couple months ago, but the New York biotech has added some gravitas to the staff with Big Pharma alum Stefan Schwabe as CMO. Schwabe spent more than a decade in neuro roles at J&J, Novartis and Sanofi , and since 2012 he had been CMO and EVP of R&D at Supernus , getting out of Dodge not long after the FDA threw cold water on the latest pitch for its Parkinson’s drug SPN-830 earlier this month. PaxMedica is advancing its lead asset PAX-101 ( intravenous suramin ) in autism spectrum disorder, with a preclinical study of the drug in the works for Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS). → Mark Deeg has been named medical chief at Enveda Biosciences , a Boulder, CO startup that chalked up the cash with a $51 million Series A in June 2021. Deeg was once the chief medical and safety officer for Eli Lilly’s Chorus in his 10 years with the Indianapolis pharma, and the ex- Regulus CMO recently oversaw global clinical development at Cullgen . Elsewhere, Deeg earned a promotion to VP of R&D at Pear Therapeutics before taking the Cullgen job last year. → As Rob Thomson shed the interim label this season and is now bound for the World Series as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, will we say the same someday for interim CMO Richard Graydon ’s job status at Seattle breast cancer biotech Atossa Therapeutics ? Graydon worked on such drugs as Carvykti ( cilta-cel ) and Imbruvica as the senior director of clinical development for Janssen, and he has served as director of clinical development at Daiichi Sankyo . → Jens Würthner has jumped on board as CMO of Amsterdam’s Scenic Biotech , which allied with Roche two years ago in a development deal involving genetic modifiers and raised $31 million in March . Würthner’s Big Pharma background includes stops at AstraZeneca , GSK and as a clinical program leader at Novartis before pivoting to ADC Therapeutics in 2016. He had led global clinical development at ADC since January 2020. → To close this CMO loop, antimicrobial developer Adaptive Phage Therapeutics has tapped Edward Fang for the position. Fang has held this post before at Adenium Biotech and US-China outfit MicuRx Pharmaceuticals . In April, Adaptive Phage topped off the cash tank from its Series B from May 2021 to bring the total to $61 million , and the following month it began the Phase I/II trial for its diabetic foot osteomyelitis treatment. → Ex- Antios chief Greg Mayes is shoring up his leadership at Toronto psychedelics player Reunion Neuroscience with Edward Smith as CFO and Aviva Asnis-Alibozek as VP, medical affairs. Smith has held a string of CFO posts at Lava Therapeutics , Marinus Pharmaceuticals and PolyMedix , and he’s a board member at Benitec Biopharma . A one-time medical affairs director at AstraZeneca, Asnis-Alibozek was EVP of medical affairs during her six years at TRM Oncology . → Travis May ’s healthcare information upstart Datavant — a relative in the Vivek Ramaswamy family of “vants” — has crunched the numbers and selected Marla Kessler as chief marketing officer. The Pfizer marketing vet followed up her 13 years at IQVIA with a recent yearlong stay at Aetion as chief customer officer. → Things can only get Better : J&J alum Diane Gomez-Thinnes has joined San Francisco-based Better Therapeutics as chief commercial officer. Last year, Gomez-Thinnes finished her 17-year tenure at J&J as the worldwide president of its medtech Mentor , and from there she became the president of US operations for Galderma . → Kleanthis Xanthopoulos ’ cell therapy crew at Shoreline Biosciences has welcomed Charles Calderaro III as chief technical officer. Calderaro knows his way around the space from his days at Kite , where he was in charge of CAR-T manufacturing as global head of technical operations. After several leadership positions in a 14-year period at Genentech , Calderaro moved on to BioMarin as SVP, global manufacturing from 2016-19. → CRO Sannova Analytical has saddled up Jason Apter as CEO and Stephen Unger as CFO. This isn’t Apter’s first time running things in the CEO seat, having called the shots previously as CEO at Johnson Matthey’s health division. Apter also has experience under his belt from Millipore Sigma and Sigma-Aldrich . Meanwhile, Unger hops aboard after a stint as CFO at Quotient and Circulogene Theranostics . → Genuv has named Jenny Choih president of its new Cambridge, MA-based subsidiary Genuv US. Choih joined Genuv in 2016, most recently serving as director of development. Earlier in her career, Choih was a consultant at McKinsey . → Intellia CEO John Leonard is joining the likes of Sean Parker and John Connolly on the board of directors at 3T Biosciences , a TCR startup that pulled together a $40 million Series A led by chairman Sean Harper and the folks at Westlake Village BioPartners. The Abbott and AbbVie alum is also a board member at IQVIA. → As Redonda Miller exits from the board of directors at Invivyd , Christine Lindenboom will step in during a time of tumult marked by last week’s layoffs and executive departures after Tillman Gerngross bailed as CEO in February. An Amgen and Pfizer vet, Lindenboom is Alnylam ’s SVP of investor relations & corporate communications. → Fred Hutch’s Tom Lynch has sewn up a spot on the board of directors at Flagship ’s Foghorn Therapeutics . Lynch’s appointment comes after the FDA threw down the stop sticks with a full clinical hold on Foghorn’s blood cancer drug FHD-286 in August. A partial hold was handed out a few months before. → Expansion Therapeutics has elected Raymond Kelleher to the board of directors at a time when drugging RNA continues to attract interest. Kelleher, a faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, is managing director of Cormorant Asset Management . → Ubiquigent has announced that the company’s CSO Sheelagh Frame has joined its board of directors. Frame began her career at Ubiquigent in 2018 as head of biology before being promoted to her current position last year. Prior to this role, Frame was with Cyclacel and Onyx Pharmaceuticals . → TC Biopharm has finished setting up its scientific advisory board, which now consists of: Blythe Sather (VP and head of research at Tune Therapeutics ), Erin Adams (professor at the University of Chicago), Chris Bond (experience from Genentech , OncoMed , Juno , Celgene and Kite ), Isabelle Riviere (director of the cell therapy and cell engineering laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Daniel Olive (researcher at the Cancer Research Center of Institut Paoli-Calmettes), and Uma Lakshmipathy (head of patheon translation services and cell therapy R&D pharma services group at Thermo Fisher ). → Trinity Biotech is adding a fresh face to its board of directors as two others hit the exit. Tom Lindsay joins as non-executive director, having served previously as president of Alere’s (now a part of Abbott ) business in Africa and currently serves as a board member at Genedrive . At the same time, directors Seon Kyu Jeon and Michael Sung Soo Kim are heading out the door. Illustration: Kim Ryu for Endpoints News

As October comes to a close, new Movers & Shakers took over the roles of chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief medical officer and more at companies such as Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, Atossa Therapeutics and Nimbus Therapeutics. Chief Executive Officer Intuity Medical George Zamanakos will assume the role of president and chief executive officer of California-based Intuity Medical. Zamanakos has served on the board of directors at Intuity for the past 18 months. He was previously divisional vice president of global strategic marketing with Abbott Diabetes. Before that, he was general manager of SweetSpot, a division of Dexcom, and director of strategic marketing for LifeScan, formerly a division of Johnson & Johnson. He began his career with McKinsey & Company. Zamanakos succeeds Emory Anderson, who led the company over the past 14 years. Anderson will continue to support Intuity in an advisory role. Chief Medical and Scientific Officers Scenic Biotech Netherlands-based Scenic Biotech appointed Jens Würthner, M.D., Ph.D., as chief medical officer. With more than 20 years experience, Würthner most recently served as vice president, head of global clinical development at ADC Therapeutics. Würthner has also led clinical development programs at large pharmaceutical companies, namely Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca. Atossa Therapeutics Richard Graydon, M.D. will assume the role of interim CMO. Prior to Atossa, Graydon was senior director of clinical development at Johnson and Johnson where he was responsible for leading compound development and clinical trial programs for Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Previously, he held the role of director of clinical development at Daiichi Sankyo where he led the early and late-stage development of the small molecule targeted therapy quizartinib for FLT3-positive acute myeloid leukemia. Adaptive Phage Therapeutics Edward Fang, M.D. was tapped as CMO. He will oversee development for APT's phage bank treatment candidates through commercialization. Fang most recently served as CMO of MicuRx Pharmaceuticals. Before that, he was CMO of Adenium Biotech, a Danish spinoff from Novozymes. Earlier in his career, Fang held clinical development management roles at Trius Therapeutics and Cerexa. Nimbus Therapeutics Biogen veteran Nathalie Franchimont, M.D., Ph.D. took over the role of CMO at Nimbus. Franchimont joins Nimbus from Biogen, where she served as senior vice president and head of the multiple sclerosis and immunology development unit. She previously held a variety of other leadership roles at Biogen, including leading the multiple sclerosis research and early development unit, the new indications research and early development unit and the immunology drug innovation unit. Prior to joining Biogen, Franchimont held medical affairs and clinical development roles at Amgen. Franchimont has served on the board of directors of OMass Therapeutics since 2020. Chief Financial Officers Opthea Limited Timothy E. Morris takes over the role of chief financial officer for Australia-based Opthea Limited. Morris is a veteran pharmaceutical executive based in the United States who has held multiple financial roles throughout his career. Morris joins Opthea from Humanigen, Inc. where he served as both CFO and chief operating officer. Prior to that, he was CFO of Iovance Biotherapeutics. Before that, he was CFO of AcelRx Pharmceuticals, VIVUS, Inc. and Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. He serves on the board of directors of DBV Technologies S.A., Aquestive Therapeutics, Humanetics Corporation and Univercells S.A. Biofrontera Inc. Fred Leffler was named CFO of Biofrontera. Most recently, Leffler was a senior manager at McKinsey & Company in Boston. Previously, he was a senior director at FTI Consulting in the corporate finance and restructuring group. He also served as vice president at the boutique global investment firm RockCreek, and held various financial positions at General Electric and Sun Edison. SCYNEXIS, Inc. Ivor Macleod joins New Jersey-based SCYNEXIS as CFO. He replaces Larry Hoffman, who served as interim CFO since late 2021. Macleod joined SCYNEXIS from Athersys, Inc. where he served as CFO since January 2020. Previously he was CFO and chief compliance officer of Eisai Inc., the U.S. pharmaceutical subsidiary of Eisai Co., Ltd. Prior to Eisai, he served as vice president of finance at Merck Research Labs at Merck & Co., Inc. Before Merck, he held multiple financial roles served at F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. BioStem Technologies Michael Fortunato has been promoted to CFO. He previously served as controller. Fortunato spent almost seven years with the SEC’s Enforcement Division at the San Francisco regional office. There, he monitored SEC registrant compliance with SEC rules and regulations for companies located from Northern California to Washington State. Other C-Suite Roles Triumvira Immunologics Robert Williamson was named president and chief business officer of Triumvera. Williamson will lead business development and strategy for the company. Prior to joining Triumvira, Williamson was president and chief executive officer at BioTheryX, Inc. He also held senior leadership roles at PharmAkea, Inc., ATXCo, Arriva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Eos Biotechnology, Inc. and DoubleTwist, Inc. Throughout his career, Williamson has served as a board member for a number of companies including Pharmasset, Inc. and Progen Pharmaceuticals. X4 Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mark Baldry was named chief commercial officer of Boston-based X4. He previously served as CCO of Freeline Therapeutics Holdings and Wave Life Sciences. Baldry also held the role of vice president of global marketing and commercial operations at Amicus Therapeutics. Earlier in his career, Baldry held leadership roles at Biogen and Shire Pharmaceuticals. Element Science Trish Howell was named chief operating officer of Bay Area-based Element Science. Prior to joining Element Science, she was vice president of operations at Avail Medsystems, a company pioneering technology in surgical telemedicine with the goal of more connected healthcare. Before that, she was VP of Operations at Stryker via the acquisition of ZipLine Medical. Before this, Howell was VP of Operations at Pulmonx Corporation. Actinium Pharmaceuticals Jenny Hsieh was named chief strategy officer of New York-based Actinium. Prior to joining Actinium, Hsieh was the head of corporate strategy at Immunomedics. Previously, she was the director of corporate strategy at Quest Diagnostics and a management consultant at several firms. Beyond Hsieh, Actinium also made several other appointments. Sunitha Lakshminarayanan was named senior vice president, head of CMC and product development and Stephen Dressel was named vice president of strategic finance and analysis.