ZEAL - Zealand Pharma appoints Enrique Conterno and Elaine Sullivan as board observers | Benzinga
Company announcement – No. 40 / 2023
Zealand Pharma appoints Enrique Conterno and Elaine Sullivan as board observers
Copenhagen, Denmark, November 30, 2023 – a Zealand Pharma A/S (CVR-no. 20045078), a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative peptide-based medicines, announced the appointment of pharmaceutical industry veterans Enrique Conterno and Elaine Sullivan as observers to the company's board of directors. It is expected that Enrique Conterno and Elaine Sullivan will stand for election to Zealand Pharma's board of directors at the company's 2024 Annual General Meeting.
"As board observes, Enrique and Elaine collectively bring decades of international pharmaceutical industry experience to Zealand Pharma," said Martin Nicklasson, Chairman of the board of directors. "We will leverage their extensive skills and expertise as Zealand advances its pipeline of wholly owned and differentiated obesity candidates that aim to address one of the biggest healthcare challenges of our time."
Enrique Conterno served at Eli Lilly and Company as senior vice president and a member of the executive committee from 2009 until his retirement from Lilly in December 2019. He was president of Lilly USA from January 2017 and president of Lilly Diabetes from 2009, and served in other roles across sales, marketing, finance, business development and general ...