Galapagos NV announced the appointment of Thad Huston as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) as per 1 July 2023. Mr. Huston will be a member of the Executive Committee of Galapagos and will join Galapagos from Kite. He brings 30 years of global finance and operational experience in healthcare with an excellent track record of driving business transformation and innovation.

Thad Huston is currently Global Head of Finance and Corporate Operations at Kite, the global leader in cell therapy. Before Kite, Thad served as CFO of LivaNova. Prior to that role, he spent over 25 years at Johnson & Johnson where he held senior financial roles at various J&J locations in the US, China, Belgium, Russia, and Hungary.

During his tenure at J&J, he helped establish the R&D innovation model and played a key role in accelerating the product pipeline through focused growth strategies, investments in innovation, business development and streamlined productivity.