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Kariuki Named CFO at VelosBio
5 August 2020 - - US-based biopharmaceutical company VelosBio Inc has appointed Dr. Enoch Kariuki as chief financial officer, the company said.

Dr. Kariuki will lead all finance-related and investor relations functions at the company.

Dr. Kariuki is a highly accomplished finance executive with extensive experience in healthcare strategy, life sciences investment banking, venture capital and business development.

Prior to joining VelosBio, Dr. Kariuki served as senior vice president, Corporate Development at Synthorx, Inc., where he led the company's USD 151m initial public offering, managed relationships with bankers, sell-side equity analysts and investors, and led the business development process that concluded with the successful sale of Synthorx to Sanofi for USD 2.5bn.

Prior to joining Synthorx, Dr. Kariuki was vice president at H.I.G. Capital, where he led investments into, and served on boards of, several life sciences companies.

His roles prior to H.I.G. include Senior Associate at Leerink Partners and Associate director at UBS Investment Bank.

At Leerink and UBS, Dr. Kariuki advised healthcare companies on equity capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations.

Dr. Kariuki completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in R and D Strategy and Analytics at Bristol-Myers Squibb and was a practicing pharmacist before transitioning to industry. He holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a PharmD from Texas Southern University.

VelosBio Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to developing novel, first-in-class, ROR1-directed therapeutics to transform the lives of patients with cancer.

Its lead candidate, VLS-101, is a ROR1-directed ADC being developed for patients with hematologic and solid tumor malignancies.

The company is developing a broad pipeline of ROR1-directed therapeutics in oncologic indications with high unmet medical need. VelosBio is headquartered in San Diego.
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