Altimmune, Inc. Announces Appointment of William Brown as Chief Financial Officer
June 12, 2019 at 04:02 pm EDT
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On June 12, 2019, Altimmune, Inc. announced the decision of the Board of Directors to appoint Mr. William Brown as Chief Financial Officer, effective June 1, 2019. Mr. Brown will continue to serve as the Company's principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. Mr. Brown, has served as the company's Acting Chief Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer since May 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Brown acted as an independent consultant to the Company since February 2018. Mr. Brown had been a consultant to several private and public companies in a variety of accounting and tax matters, both independently and as the managing partner of Redmont CPAs since October 2016. Prior to that, he was an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in both Montgomery, Alabama (from June 2012 through July 2013) and Denver, Colorado (from November 2014 through September 2016). From August 2013 through October 2014, Mr. Brown was the Water Heater Division Controller at Rheem Manufacturing.
Altimmune, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing treatments for obesity and liver diseases. The Company's lead product candidate, pemvidutide, is a GLP-1/glucagon dual receptor agonist that is being developed for the treatment of obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). The Company has completed the MOMENTUM Phase II obesity trial and is being studied in the IMPACT Phase IIb MASH trial. It is also developing HepTcell, an immunotherapeutic product candidate for patients chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). The Company has completed the enrollment in its Phase II clinical trial of HepTcell. Its product candidates are based on its proprietary platform technologies, such as EuPort-based Peptide Technology and Synthetic Peptide Technology-Densigen. The Companyâs wholly owned subsidiaries include Altimmune, LLC, Altimmune UK, Limited, Spitfire Pharma, LLC and Altimmune AU Pty, Limited.
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