Pulmocide Ltd. announced the appointments of Matt Dallas as its Chief Financial Officer and Ashish Sagrolikar as its Chief Commercial Officer. Mr. Dallas brings more than 20 years of financial management experience in the life sciences industry. Most recently, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Zealand Pharma, a Danish biotechnology research company that designs and develops peptide-based medicines mainly focusing on metabolic diseases, like diabetes and obesity.

Prior to Zealand, Matt held CFO roles with AVEO Oncology and CoLucid Pharmaceuticals. At CoLucid, he helped lead the company's initial public offering and subsequent acquisition by Eli Lilly and Company. In addition, Matt previously worked at Genzyme Corporation, NEN Life Sciences, and Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

Matt holds a B.S. in finance from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and serves on the University's Finance Department Advisory Council. Mr. Sagrolikar comes to Pulmocide with significant global leadership experience in commercial and operational functions at leading healthcare companies, such as Baxter Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, and Zogenix Inc. At Zogenix, where he was most recently Chief Operating Officer and prior to that Chief Commercial Officer, he helped lead the transformation of the company from a development-focused organization to a fully integrated, commercial stage company. Under his commercial leadership, Zogenix built a successful commercial team to launch an orphan disease drug which outperformed Wall Street expectations for six consecutive quarters before the company was acquired by UCB SA.

Ashish is a pharmacist by training and earned his MBA from the Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also the treasurer and member of the Executive Committee at Triangle Angel Partners. Mr. Dallas and Mr. Sagrolikar join a senior leadership team with significant experience in the discovery and development of inhaled therapies for respiratory disease indications, including Daniel Burgess, Chairman and CEO, Lance Berman, MB.ChB, Chief Medical Officer, Pete Strong, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Cofounder, Jennifer Giottonini Cayer, Chief Business Officer, Anne Brindley, Ph.D., Managing Director, UK, and Head of CMC, David Mantus, Ph.D., President, US Operations, Ubaldo Martin, M.D., Vice President of Clinical Development, and Sonya Roeloffzen, Vice President, Head of Global Regulatory Affairs.

Together, the Pulmocide management team has a history of successful company development, including product development and approval, manufacturing, business development, finance, and commercial launch.