Ascelia Pharma AB (publ) announced that it has appointed Déspina Georgiadou Hedin as Chief Financial Officer. She has a strong background in finance, most recently as CFO and HR Manager at Bioglan. She will take up her new position at Ascelia Pharma in September and report to CEO Magnus Corfitzen.

Déspina Georgiadou Hedin is 35 years old and holds a Master of Science in Business and Economics, from Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden. Most recently, she has been CFO and HR manager at Bioglan AB, and prior to that, she served as Chief Accountant and Senior Financial Specialist at Sol Voltaics AB. Déspina also has a background as auditor from the accounting firm BDO.

She will take up her new position in September and succeeds Kristian Borbos who has been Ascelia Pharma's CFO since 2017.