Ipsen adds Karen Witts to its Board as Independent Director

– FRANCE, Paris –  Ipsen (EPA: IPN | ADR: IPSEY) today announced the appointment of Karen Witts to its Board as Independent Director, bringing the Board to 14 members whom six women and eight men and including four independent members.

About Karen Witts

Karen Witts was Group CFO at Compass Group Plc until October 2021. Compass is the world’s leading food service company, operating in 43 countries and employing more than 500k people. She was responsible for corporate strategy and planning, business performance management and reporting, financial reporting and control, tax and treasury activities, M&A, internal audit and enterprise risk management, investor relations, and led the digital and technology function.

Before this, Karen was Group CFO at Kingfisher Plc, the international home improvement company. She has also held various senior strategic finance positions at companies including Vodafone Group Services Ltd, and BT Plc. She brings expertise in transformation, investment, and risk management. Karen is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit.

She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds an MA from the University of Edinburgh.

About Ipsen

Ipsen is a global, mid-sized biopharmaceutical company focused on transformative medicines in Oncology, Rare Disease, and Neuroscience; it also has a well-established Consumer Healthcare business. With total sales of over €2.5bn in FY 2020, Ipsen sells more than 20 medicines in over 115 countries, with a direct commercial presence in more than 30 countries. The Company’s research and development efforts are focused on its innovative and differentiated technological platforms located in the heart of leading biotechnological and life-science hubs: Paris-Saclay, France; Oxford, U.K.; Cambridge, U.S.; Shanghai, China. Ipsen has around 5,700 colleagues worldwide.

For more information, visit ipsen.com.

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