Ascendis Pharma A/S announced new Endocrinology commercial leadership appointments following the retirement of Global Chief Commercial Officer Jesper Høiland: Having established U.S. commercial operations, Jesper Høiland will retire from his position at Ascendis Pharma to return to Denmark with his family. Mr. Høiland joined Ascendis as Senior Vice President and Global Chief Commercial Officer in May 2020, bringing more than 25 years of senior leadership experience in operations, commercialization, and global marketing to his role. Joe Kelly has been appointed to the newly created role of Head of U.S. Commercial, Endocrinology.

Mr. Kelly joined Ascendis in September 2020 as Vice President of Sales, U.S., where he has been leading the sales team to successfully increase awareness and build demand during the launch of SKYTROFA (lonapegsomatropin-tcgd), the company's first commercial product. Mr. Kelly has over 20 years of healthcare industry and sales experience and an exceptional track record of growing sales, developing people, and carefully listening to customers' needs. Scott A. Holmes has been appointed to the newly created role of Head of Global Commercial Strategy, Endocrinology.

Mr. Holmes joined Ascendis in 2018 as Vice President, Commercial Analytics, where he has been responsible for building Ascendis' commercial analytics capabilities and for creating the Ascendis Signature Access Program to support patients, caregivers, physicians, and payers.