Passage Bio Announces Key Executive Appointments - Seite 2

“I’m thrilled that we are able to bring these highly experienced professionals to our company, enhancing our already talented leadership team,” Dr. Goldsmith said. “Passage Bio’s robust and expanding pipeline presents significant opportunity both in terms of clinical development and in commercial planning to ensure optimal patient adoption once our therapies are approved. I’m pleased that we have such strong leadership to expertly drive our company growth and advance our pipeline for patients.”

Executive Biographies

Ms. Törnsén has nearly 20 years of global commercial experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, working in both rare and specialty therapeutic areas and across multiple geographic markets. As the U.S. general manager for Sarepta, she led the launch of its second and third products for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She also led launch preparations for future gene therapies and double-digit year-over-year sales growth in 2019 and 2020. Ms. Törnsén joined Sarepta from Sanofi Genzyme, where she served as the global therapeutic head for rare neurological, metabolic and endocrine diseases with responsibility for both marketed and pipeline products. Before Sanofi Genzyme, she worked at Shire in marketing in rare diseases before moving to the neuroscience division. While at Shire, she relocated to the United States and led U.S. sales and marketing for the endocrine franchise. Before joining Shire, Ms. Törnsén was at Merck KGaA in Switzerland, where she held a number of marketing leadership roles in neurology. She began her industry career as a sales representative with Eli Lilly in Sweden, launching three products. She received her M.S. in International Business Administration from Lund University in Sweden.

Ms. King has more than 20 years’ strategic finance experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, with both large and small companies. Her experience ranges from counseling executive teams on growth strategies to managing equity and debt financing to launching blockbuster products. She will join Passage Bio from Tmunity Therapeutics, where she served as CFO. Prior to that she was at Emergent BioSolutions as vice president of financial planning, analysis and assistant treasurer. Before Emergent, she worked for 19 years at Bristol-Myers Squibb, holding a number of finance roles of increasing responsibility across most functional aspects of the organization, including mergers and acquisitions, R&D, commercial and manufacturing, eventually leading the company’s global financial processes as executive director of corporate financial planning and analysis. Ms. King is a certified public accountant. She earned her B.A. at Kalamazoo College, and her MBA from Columbia Business School. She also has a diploma in African Studies from the University of Cape Town, where she attended as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.