Rockwell Medical Announces Appointment of Russell L. Skibsted as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer
September 15, 2020 at 07:59 am EDT
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Rockwell Medical, Inc. announced the appointment of Russell L. Skibsted, M.B.A., as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer, effective September 15, 2020. In this new role, Mr. Skibsted will be responsible for business development, financial operations and investor relations for the Company and will oversee the Finance and Accounting, Legal and Compliance, and Human Resources and Administration functions, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors. Mr. Skibsted is a seasoned executive with more than 25 years of experience in finance, global business development, capital raising, investor relations, and operations. He has worked with a variety of both public and private life sciences companies, from commercial stage, development stage and start up. Prior to joining Rockwell, he served as CFO of AgeX Therapeutics (NYSE American: AGE), a biotechnology company focused on cell therapy targeting the diseases of aging that was spun out of BioTime, Inc. (currently Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE American and TASE: LCTX)). Previously, Mr. Skibsted served as CFO of BioTime, Inc., a publicly-traded biotechnology company which he joined in 2015, where he simultaneously, from time to time, performed the role of Chief Financial Officer for several of BioTime’s public and private subsidiaries, including Agex Therapeutics, OncoCyte Corporation (NYSE American: OCX), a developer of novel, non-invasive tests for the early detection of cancer (November 2015 through November 2017) and Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering the field of regenerative medicine with clinical programs in spinal cord injury and oncology immunotherapy (March 2016 through November 2016). Prior to BioTime, Mr. Skibsted served as CFO or Chief Business Officer for several public and private life science companies, including Proove Biosciences, Aeolus Pharmaceuticals, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals and Hana Biosciences. From time to time, he also acted as a consulting CFO to various life science companies as Managing Director of RSL Ventures. Earlier in his career, Mr. Skibsted held roles as Portfolio Management Partner and CFO at Asset Management Company, one of the oldest and most respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, and Vice President for GE Capital Services Structured Finance Group. Mr. Skibsted holds a B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Rockwell Medical, Inc. is a healthcare company. The Company develops, manufactures, commercializes, and distributes a portfolio of hemodialysis products for dialysis providers around the world. The Company operates in the hemodialysis market, which involves the manufacture, sale and distribution of hemodialysis products to hemodialysis clinics, including pharmaceuticals, dialysis concentrates, dialysis kits and other ancillary products used in the dialysis process. It is the supplier of life-sustaining hemodialysis concentrates products to dialysis clinics. Its hemodialysis concentrates products are used to sustain a patient's life by removing toxins and balancing electrolytes in a dialysis patientâs bloodstream. The Company manufactures hemodialysis concentrates at its facilities in Michigan, South Carolina, and Texas, and the Company manufactures its dry acid concentrate mixers at its facility in Iowa.