Scienza e Tecnologia
Pharming appoints Jeroen Wakkerman as Chief Financial Officer
He joins Pharming from Nutreco N.V., a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed, where he was CFO for almost five years. Prior to this, Jeroen was CFO of SHV Energy N.V., Finance Director at Calor Gas (UK) and has held several financial and commercial positions at Unilever and Rabobank. Jeroen is a Dutch citizen, resides in the Netherlands and holds an MSc degree in Business Economics from the University of Groningen ( the Netherlands ) and is a Chartered Treasurer (UK) and a Chartered Management Accountant (UK).
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"We look forward to welcoming Jeroen to Pharming during a transformational period, which has seen the Company transition to a profitable biopharmaceutical business, with increasing commercial sales supporting an advancing pipeline. His extensive financial, operational and business development expertise will be a great asset, and significantly add to our senior management skills and experience base, as we continue to execute against our growth strategy through the development of commercial operations, pipeline assets and acquisition opportunities, supported by a future potential secondary listing in the US."
"I am excited to be joining Pharming at such an important stage in the Company's development. Pharming has gone through an impressive journey with continually growing business results in recent years and I look forward to working with the management team and supporting colleagues across the business as the Company enters it next stage of development."
Pharming Group N.V. is a global, commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative protein replacement therapies and precision medicines for the treatment of rare diseases and unmet medical needs.
The flagship of our portfolio is our recombinant human C1 esterase inhibitor, or rhC1INH, franchise. C1INH is a naturally occurring protein that downregulates the complement cascade in order to control swelling in affected tissues.
Our lead product, RUCONEST® is the first and only plasma-free rhC1INH protein replacement therapy. It is approved for the treatment of acute hereditary angioedema, or HAE, attacks. We are commercializing RUCONEST® in the United States , the European Union and the United Kingdom through our own sales and marketing organization, and the rest of the world through our distribution network.
We are also developing rhC1INH for subsequent indications, including pre-eclampsia, acute kidney injury and we also investigating the clinical efficacy of rhC1INH in COVID-19.
In addition, we are studying our oral precision medicine, leniolisib (a phosphoinositide 3-kinase delta, or PI3K delta, inhibitor), for the treatment of activated PI3K delta syndrome, or APDS, in a registration enabling Phase 2/3 study in the US and Europe .
Furthermore, we are also leveraging our transgenic manufacturing technology to develop next-generation protein replacement therapies most notably for Pompe disease, which program is currently in the preclinical stage.
Sijmen de Vries, CEO: T: +31 71 524 7400
Susanne Embleton , Investor Relations Manager: T: +31 71 524 7400 E: investor@pharming.com
Victoria Foster Mitchell / Alex Shaw / Mary Whittow
T: +44 203 727 1000
Leon Melens
T: +31 6 53 81 64 27
E: pharming@lifespring.nl