# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001425205
**File Stem:** 0001104659-25-065781
**Filing Date:** 2025-7
**Character Count:** 7074
**Document Hash:** 03041723bfd99627ab8479dbad08fba0
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-25-065781.hdr.sgml**: 20250703

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-25-065781

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250630

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250703

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250703

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** IOVANCE BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001425205
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS (NO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES) [2836]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 03 Life Sciences
- **EIN:** 753254381
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-36860
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251105583

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD
- **STREET 2:** 4TH FLOOR
- **CITY:** SAN CARLOS
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94070
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 6502607120

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD
- **STREET 2:** 4TH FLOOR
- **CITY:** SAN CARLOS
- **STATE:** CA
- **ZIP:** 94070

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Lion Biotechnologies, Inc.
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20131015

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Genesis Biopharma, Inc
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20100319

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** FREIGHT MANAGEMENT CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20080128

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**UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

 **Current Report** 

**Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): June 30, 2025

**IOVANCE BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.**

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

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| &nbsp;&nbsp;**Delaware** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**Delaware** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**(State of Incorporation)** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**(State of Incorporation)** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**001-36860** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**75-3254381** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**Commission File Number** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**825 Industrial Road, Suite 100** |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**San Carlos, California** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**94070** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**(Zip Code)** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**(650) 260-7120** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**(650) 260-7120** |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;**(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)** | &nbsp;&nbsp;**(Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code)** |

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter). Emerging growth company ◻

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ◻

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| &nbsp;&nbsp;Title of each class | &nbsp;&nbsp;Trading <br> Symbol(s) | &nbsp;&nbsp;Name of each exchange on which<br> registered |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;Common stock, par value $0.000041666 per share | &nbsp;&nbsp;IOVA | &nbsp;&nbsp;The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC |

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| **Item 5.02** | **Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.** |

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As previously disclosed, on June 10, 2025, Jean-Marc Bellemin notified Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (the "Company") that he would be resigning as Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer of the Company to pursue other opportunities, effective July 10, 2025. On June 30, 2025, the Company and Mr. Bellemin mutually agreed that Mr. Bellemin would separate from the Company, effective June 30, 2025.

Effective as of June 30, 2025, Matthew W. Rosinack, the Company's Senior Vice President, Finance, was appointed as the Company's interim Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer.

Mr. Rosinack, age 53, has served as the Company's Senior Vice President, Finance since September 2021. Previously, Mr. Rosinack served in roles at Berkeley Lights, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company (merged and acquired by Bruker Corporation), including serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and Vice President and Corporate Controller from March 2016 to August 2021. Prior to Berkeley Lights, Inc., from October 2012 to March 2016, Mr. Rosinack held roles of increasing responsibility at ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc., a publicly traded medical device company (acquired by Allergan plc), including as Vice President and Corporate Controller. Mr. Rosinack also held roles at FormFactor, Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor test and measurement equipment manufacturing company, from April 2011 to October 2012, including as Corporate Controller and Director, Corporate Accounting. In addition, Mr. Rosinack spent more than 14 years in public accounting practice with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Rosinack received his B.A. in Accounting from Ohio Wesleyan University.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Rosinack and any other persons in connection with Mr. Rosinack's appointment as interim Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer. There are also no family relationships between Mr. Rosinack and any director or executive officer of the Company and Mr. Rosinack has no direct or indirect interest in any transaction or proposed transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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| Date: July 3, 2025 | **IOVANCE BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.** | **IOVANCE BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC.** |
|  | By: | /s/ Frederick G. Vogt |
|  |  | Frederick G. Vogt, Ph.D., J.D., Interim CEO and President, and General Counsel |

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