FREMONT, Calif., May 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -
- Zosano Pharma Corporation (NASDAQ:ZSAN), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced the appointment of Christine Matthews as the company’s chief financial officer (CFO). Ms. Matthews, who previously served as interim CFO, will be responsible for leading the finance and accounting departments.
“We are pleased to appoint Christine to the position of chief financial officer,” said Steven Lo, president and chief executive officer of Zosano. “Christine has demonstrated strong leadership during her tenure at Zosano and has a proven track record of diligent financial planning and execution. I am confident that her continued contributions will be key in our future success as we head towards possible commercialization.”
“It is an exciting time to be at Zosano as we enter this next phase of growth,” said Christine Matthews, chief financial officer of Zosano. “I look forward to continuing my work with the Zosano management team as we prepare for the potential approval of Qtrypta™.”
Ms. Matthews has over 20 years of broad leadership experience in finance and accounting. She was most recently the interim CFO at Zosano, a position she was appointed to after having served as the company’s vice president and corporate controller. Previously, Ms. Matthews was as an accounting and financial consultant with RGP, a professional services company. Her past positions include senior director of financial planning & analysis at Cepheid, a leading molecular diagnostic company (acquired by Danaher), supporting North America commercial operations, as well as group director of finance at Cadence Design Systems. Ms. Matthews began her career with Arthur Andersen, LLP. She holds a B.S. in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
About Zosano
Zosano Pharma Corporation is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing products where rapid administration of approved molecules with established safety and efficacy profiles may provide substantial benefit to patients, in markets where patients remain underserved by existing therapies. The company’s intracutaneous microneedle system technology consists of titanium microneedles coated with drug that are designed to enable rapid systemic administration of therapeutics to patients. Zosano’s lead product candidate is Qtrypta™ (M207), which is a proprietary formulation of zolmitriptan delivered via its intracutaneous microneedle system technology, as an acute treatment for migraine. The company anticipates that many of its current and future development programs may enable the company to utilize a regulatory pathway that would streamline clinical development and accelerate the path towards commercialization.