Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-01-21
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-009599
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Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-21
Form: PREM14A
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 2021. Prior to joining Aadi, Mr. Giacobello served as the Chief Financial Officer of GW Pharmaceuticals plc, a global pharmaceuticals company, from March 2017 until its acquisition by Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc in May 2021. Prior to joining GW Pharmaceuticals, Mr. Giacobello served as Chief Financial Officer of Chase Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of improved treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, until it was acquired by Allergan plc (now a wholly owned subsidiary of AbbVie Inc.) in 2016. From 2008 through 2015, Mr. Giacobello held senior level finance positions at Allergan including Vice President of Finance for Global Research & Development, Vice President of Corporate Finance and Vice President of Internal Audit & Compliance. Mr. Giacobello’s previous experience includes financial positions at the Black & Decker Corporation and Ernst & Young, LLP. Mr. Giacobello currently serves on the board of directors of the privately-held company Autobahn Therapeutics. Mr. Giacobello holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and is a Certified Public Accountant. Bryan Ball, has served as Aadi’s Chief Technical Operations Officer since March 2024 and served as its Chief Quality Officer and Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Operations from August 2022 to March 2024. From January 2021 to August 2022, Mr. Ball served as Chief Quality Officer and SVP, Operations at Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICPT), a biopharmaceutical company. From March 2019 to December 2020, Mr. Ball was Chief Quality Officer of Immunomedics, Inc., a biotechnology company, where he was responsible for all quality issues, including product development, clinical trials, manufacturing, testing, and distribution of the company’s clinical stage candidates and first commercial product. From 2015 to 2019, Mr. Ball was Senior Vice President for Quality, Environmental Health, and Safety at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company. From 2012 to 2015, Mr. Ball was Vice President for Global Quality at Ikaria, Inc., which is now a part of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. From 2008 to 2012, he was Vice President for Quality Operations at Boehringer Ingelheim, a pharmaceutical company. Mr. Ball is a trained biologist, with an M.B.A. from Westminster