Company: ACHV
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-059297
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Company: ACHIEVE LIFE SCIENCES, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: DEF 14A
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 Sales at Patheon N.V., and continued to serve as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Themo Fisher Scientific Inc. a life, scient and clinical research company, following its acquisition of Patheon N.V. in August 2017. Previously, he served as the Global Vice President of Sales and Client Services from 2011 to 2014, and as the Vice President of Strategic Partnering/ Alliance Management from 2007 to 2011 at Covance, the drug development business of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, a contract research organization. Early in his career, Mr. Sellig had a variety of sales and marketing leadership roles at Procter & Gamble Company, a multinational consumer goods company, Wyeth, LLC (formerly American Home Products), a pharmaceutical company, and Ascent Pediatrics, Inc., a drug development company. Mr. Sellig received his B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from New York University. The determination was made that Mr. Sellig should serve on our Board of Directors due to his global extensive experience in the life sciences and pharmaceutical services industries.

Kristen Slaoui,Ph.D., has served as the Chief Corporate Development Officer at Galderma S.A., a global pharmaceutical company specializing in dermatological treatments and skin care products, since September 2020. From March 2019 to November 2022, she also served as a member of the board of directors of Villaris Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focusing on developing novel antibody therapeutics for the treatment of vitiligo. Prior to this role, Dr. Slaoui spent 20 years at GlaxoSmithKline plc, a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company where she held roles of increasing responsibility, including as Vice President & Head, Business Development – North America from March 2015 to March 2019, and Vice President & Head, of Business Development, Pharmaceuticals Commercial Portfolio from March 2019 to August 2020. Dr. Slaoui earned a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Classical Studies from Gettysburg College. She earned her Ph.D. in Physiology from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmacology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The determination was made that Dr. Slaoui should serve on our Board of Directors due to her broad experience in corporate strategy and development.

Richard Stewarthas served as our Chief Executive officer