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Akili Makes CFO & General Counsel Appointments
Akili Makes CFO & General Counsel Appointments.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 8318V PureTech Health PLC 11 April 2019 \n\n \n11 April 2019\n \nPureTech Health Affiliate Akili Appoints Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel to Leadership Team\n \nPureTech Health plc (LSE: PRTC) (\"PureTech Health\"), an advanced biopharmaceutical company developing novel medicines for dysfunctions of the Brain-Immune-Gut (BIG) axis, today announced that its affiliate, Akili Interactive, has appointed Santosh Shanbhag as chief financial officer and Jacqueline Studer as senior vice president and general counsel.\n \nShanbhag is a senior financial executive with 20 years of experience. Most recently, he comes from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where he served as vice president and head of international finance and accounting and was responsible for the company's international business operations for key markets. \n \nStuder brings decades of experience providing legal strategy to large and emerging growth healthcare companies. She was previously with IDEXX Laboratories, where she served as corporate vice president, general counsel and secretary. In this role, she was responsible for the legal, compliance and regulatory organizations during the company's global expansion. \n \nThe full text announcement from Akili is as follows: \n \nAkili Grows Leadership Team with Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel Appointments\n \nSantosh Shanbhag joins Akili as Chief Financial Officer\n Jacqueline Studer joins Akili as Senior Vice President and General Counsel \n \nBOSTON, April 11, 2019 -- Akili Interactive (\"Akili\"), a leading digital medicine company creating prescription treatments for people living with cognitive dysfunction, today announced the addition of two new executives to the Akili leadership team. Santosh Shanbhag has been named Chief Financial Officer and Jacqueline Studer has been named Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Akili.\n \n\"Santosh and Jackie are talented executives whose extensive business strategy and diverse industry experience make them the perfect fit for our growing business,\" said Eddie Martucci, CEO of Akili. \"They bring tremendous financial and legal expertise to the company which will help us continue to challenge the status quo of medicine on our path to deliver new hope to patients living...