Lantheus Announces CEO Succession Plan

Lantheus Board Member and Pharmaceutical Industry Veteran Brian Markison Appointed Lantheus Chief Executive Officer, Effective March 1, 2024

Mary Anne Heino to Retire as Chief Executive Officer and Become Chair of the Board of Directors

BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lantheus Holdings, Inc. (the Company) (NASDAQ: LNTH), the leading radiopharmaceutical-focused company committed to enabling clinicians to Find, Fight and Follow disease to deliver better patient outcomes, today announced that the Company has appointed Brian Markison, current Board Chair and industry veteran, to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective as of March 1, 2024. He will also continue as a member of Lantheus’ Board of Directors, where he has served for the past 11 years. Mary Anne Heino, who has successfully led and grown the Company for the past nine years, will retire as CEO on March 1, 2024 and assume the role of Chair of the Board of Directors as part of a deliberate CEO succession process. As part of this leadership transition, Mr. Markison will assume the role of Executive Chair of the Board immediately until his CEO appointment in March, and Board Member Julie McHugh will become Lead Independent Director effective immediately.

“Brian is perfectly suited to lead Lantheus as the Company enters its next phase of growth. He has held the Chair role for more than 10 years and in that role has overseen Company strategy. He knows our exceptional Executive Team well and brings decades of leadership experience as the CEO of public companies with development, commercialization and manufacturing expertise, including in oncology and neurology therapeutics,” said Mary Anne Heino. “It has been my honor to lead Lantheus over the past nine years, and I am extremely proud of what we have accomplished. Our leadership as a radiopharmaceutical-focused company and the contributions Lantheus has made to precision diagnostics have aided healthcare providers and their patients around the world. We have an incredibly talented team at Lantheus, and I look forward to serving as Chair and continuing to partner closely with Brian and the Executive Team as we focus on our Purpose to Find, Fight and Follow disease to deliver better patient outcomes.”