ZNTL - Zentalis Pharmaceuticals appoints Kimberly Blackwell as top boss
Clinical-stage biotech Zentalis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ZNTL) on Monday appointed board member Kimberly Blackwell as its CEO, replacing Anthony Sun. Before joining ZNTL, Blackwell was chief medical officer at Tempus, a privately held data-providing precision medicine company. She was a vice president at Eli Lilly (LLY) prior to that. Anthony Sun will remain CEO of ZNTL's joint venture, Zentera Therapeutics. ZNTL also said board member Dave Johnson had been appointed as chairman. Separately, ZNTL on Monday priced its underwritten offering of 10.3M shares at an offering price of $19.38/share for total gross proceeds of ~$200.2M. ZNTL stock +21.1% to $24.87 in morning trade.
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Zentalis Pharmaceuticals appoints Kimberly Blackwell as top boss