Date: 2018-01-03
Type of information: Nomination
Compound: president and chief executive officer
Company: Syntimmune (USA - MA)
Therapeutic area: Autoimmune diseases
Type agreement: nomination
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- • On January 3, 2018, Syntimmune announced that the company has appointed Jean-Paul Kress as President and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Kress, who will also serve as a director of the company, brings senior leadership experience in pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, with a focus on operations and commercialization of innovative products addressing unmet medical needs across diverse disease indications. David de Graaf, Ph.D., has stepped down from his position as CEO and resigned from the company’s Board of Directors. Syntimmune co-founder Laurence Blumberg, M.D., will continue to serve as Syntimmune’s Chief Operating Officer and as a member of the Board.
- Prior to joining Syntimmune, Dr. Kress served as Executive Vice President and President, International, and Head of Global Therapeutic Operations at Biogen, overseeing the company’s rare and specialty disease teams. Previously, Dr. Kress was Senior Vice President, Head of North America at Sanofi Genzyme, where he was instrumental in launching several therapeutic products, including dupilumab, the first biologic agent approved in atopic dermatitis. Prior to this, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi Pasteur MSD, a vaccines joint venture of Sanofi and Merck & Co. Dr. Kress also held leadership roles at Gilead, serving as Vice President, US Sales and Marketing, and Vice President, General Manager for France. He began his industry career with Eli Lilly in France and held commercial and business development roles in the US and Europe at Abbott (now AbbVie). Dr. Kress received an M.D. degree from Faculté Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris, and graduate and post-graduate degrees in pharmacology and immunology from École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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