Valneva Announces Successful Outcome of its AGM and the Appointment of two new Supervisory Board Members

  
Valneva Announces Successful Outcome of its AGM and the Appointment of two new Supervisory Board Members

Saint-Herblain (France), June 17, 2020 – Valneva SE (“Valneva” or “the Company”), a specialty vaccine company, announced today that all the resolutions recommended by the Management Board were approved by the shareholders at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held behind closed doors in Nantes on June 17, 2020.

Among the resolutions approved during the AGM were the 2019 financial statements, delegations for the management board to increase the share capital and/or to issue financial instruments, and the appointment, for a three-year term, of two new Supervisory Board members.

Ms. Johanna Willemina Pattenier, MD, PhD, based in Switzerland has a proven track record of more than 25 years in the pharmaceutical industry. She spent most of her career in vaccines leadership roles across commercial, clinical development, medical, market access functions as well as general management. Dr.Pattenier successfully led late stage development and market access programs for new vaccines, including HPV and Meningitis B. Most recently, she served as General Manager of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics (now a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) company) in Basel and GSK / Novartis vaccines integration lead. Prior to that, Dr. Pattenier’s international career included commercial and medical roles at GSK, Organon and Byk Gulden.

Ms. Sharon Elizabeth Tetlow, MBA, based in the U.S., has more than three decades of experience specializing in finance within the life sciences industry. Ms. Tetlow founded and serves as Managing Partner of Potrero Hill Advisors (PHA). In her role at PHA and through her career as a serial CFO, she has lead and executed successful financial strategies. Prior to PHA,  Ms. Tetlow was managing director of Danforth Advisors, a similar financial advisory firm and held previous CFO/senior finance roles at Cell Genesys, Pathwork Dx, diaDexus, among others. She currently serves as Audit Committee Chair on the Board of Directors of Catalyst Biosciences (NASDAQ:CBIO) and on the board of Katherine Michiels School Project Open Mind, an education-related not-for-profit in San Francisco. Ms. Tetlow earned a B.A. from the University of Delaware and M.B.A. from Stanford University.