Iovance Biotherapeutics Appoints Jean-Marc Bellemin as Chief Financial Officer
December 14, 2020 at 07:00 am EST
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Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Jean-Marc Bellemin as Chief Financial Officer, effective today. Mr. Bellemin brings 27 years of industry experience in finance, including public companies. Mr. Bellemin has 27 years of progressive international experience in finance, business leadership and operations management within start-up and global multi-billion-dollar organizations. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Gritstone Oncology, where he led the overall financial strategy and multiple private and public financings, including an initial public offering and first equity follow-on financing. Previously Mr. Bellemin held roles of increasing responsibility at Actelion Pharmaceuticals, from 2002 until the 2017 acquisition by Johnson & Johnson. As Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Head of Finance and Market Access at Actelion Pharmaceuticals US Inc., he provided strategic leadership, operations, and financial management. Mr. Bellemin was actively involved in the launch of six drugs within five years, including three ‘blockbusters’ drugs, helping drive Actelion US to $1.8 billion in revenue.
Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company develops and delivers tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), therapies for patients with solid tumor cancers. Its lead product candidate, Amtagvi (lifileucel), is a tumor-derived autologous T cell immunotherapy indicated for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma previously treated with a PD-1 blocking antibody, and if BRAF V600 mutation positive, a BRAF inhibitor with or without a MEK inhibitor. The Company also marketing Proleukin (aldesleukin), aninterleukin-2, or IL-2, product used in the Amtagvi treatment regimen. Its development pipeline includes multicenter trials of TIL cell therapies in additional treatment settings for solid tumor cancers. Amtagvi and Proleukin are part of a treatment regimen that also includes lymphodepletion. The Company is also developing next generation therapies using TIL, such as genetically modified TIL cell therapy.