On November 25, 2019, Axcella Health Inc. announced that Laurent Chardonnet has been appointed to serve as the company's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective as of November 25, 2019. Mr. Chardonnet will act as the company's principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. Mr. Chardonnet brings to Axcella more than 20 years of biopharma finance experience.

He joins the company following a 15-year tenure at Incyte Corporation during which he helped it grow from a $500 million development-stage organization into a $20 billion commercial biopharmaceutical company. While at Incyte, Mr. Chardonnet served as Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer from 2005 to 2015 as well as the Head of Finance and Administration for the company's European division from 2015 to 2017. Most recently, as Incyte's Vice President of Alliances from 2017 to 2019, he aligned the company's alliances with its overall strategy.