Company: PHAT
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000950170-25-061440
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Company: Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 1A
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There have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” of our 2024 Form 10-K, other than as set forth below.

Our future growth and ability to compete depends on retaining our key personnel and recruiting additional qualified personnel.

We are highly dependent on the management, commercial, development, clinical, and financial experience of our senior management. Although we have entered into employment agreements with our executive officers, each of them may terminate their employment with us at any time. We do not maintain “key person” insurance for any of our executives or employees. This lack of insurance means that we may not have adequate compensation for the loss of the services of these individuals. For example, effective April 1, 2025, Steven Basta was appointed as our President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Terrie Curran. In addition, effective April 30, 2025, Azmi Nabulsi, M.D., our Chief Operating Officer, Molly Henderson, our Chief Financial Officer, Martin Gilligan, our Chief Commercial Officer, and Tom Harris, our Chief Development Sciences Officer resigned as officers and we announced that Jonathan Bentley will join us as our Senior Vice President, Head of Sales. Executive leadership transitions can be inherently difficult to manage and, as a result, we may experience disruption or have difficulty in managing our operations and achieving our business objectives. Competition for qualified personnel in the biopharmaceutical field is intense, and our future success depends upon our ability to attract, retain and motivate highly skilled commercial, scientific, technical and managerial employees. We face competition for personnel from other biopharmaceutical companies and other organizations. If our recruitment and retention efforts are unsuccessful in the future, it may be difficult for us to implement business strategy, which could harm our business. In addition, we rely on consultants and advisors, including scientific and clinical advisors, to assist us in formulating and implementing our development and commercialization strategy. Our consultants and advisors may be employed by employers other than us and may have commitments under consulting or advisory contracts with other entities that may limit their availability to us. If we are unable to continue to attract, retain and motivate necessary personnel to accomplish our business objectives, we may experience constraints that will significantly impede achievement of our commercial and development objectives, our ability to raise additional capital and our ability to implement our business strategy.

We currently rely on, and expect to rely on for the foreseeable future, Evonik and Catalent for the manufacture of vonoprazan drug