– USA, CA – Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNSS) today announced that H. Ward Wolff has been appointed to the Sunesis Board of Directors. Mr. Wolff brings over 40 years of finance and executive leadership experience to the Board, with 20 years of experience in the life sciences sector, most recently having served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. Mr. Wolff will also be designated chairman of the company’s Audit Committee.
“Ward’s vast experience in healthcare finance and operations will be invaluable to Sunesis as we continue to advance our kinase inhibitor pipeline, led by our non-covalent BTK inhibitor vecabrutinib (SNS-062),” said Dayton Misfeldt, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Sunesis. “We are delighted to have him on the Board and welcome his strategic counsel as we look towards our upcoming milestones for the company, including an interim data update on our ongoing Phase 1b/2 trial in adults with relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and other B Cell malignancies.”
“I am excited to be joining the Board of Directors at Sunesis at a time of upward momentum for the Company,” stated Mr. Wolff. “Sunesis has a strong pipeline of differentiated cancer therapeutics, with significant potential for vecabrutinib to become a new treatment option for patients with hematological malignancies. I look forward to working alongside the management team and contributing to the achievement of the company’s strategic plan.”
Ward Wolff was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Sangamo Therapeutics, serving at the company from December 2007 until his retirement in March 2017. Prior to joining Sangamo, he was Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Nuvelo. Before his work at Nuvelo, Ward was Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Finance, at Abgenix, Inc. until April 2006 when Abgenix merged with Amgen Inc. Prior to joining Abgenix, Mr. Wolff held financial management positions in both public and private emerging growth companies, including serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DoubleTwist, Inc., a life sciences company integrating genomic information and bioinformatics analysis tools. He began his career with Price Waterhouse, where he held a number of positions as a certified public accountant, including Senior Audit Manager.
Mr. Wolff currently serves as a member of a Board of Directors of Portola Pharmaceuticals and Calithera Biosciences. He received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
About Sunesis Pharmaceuticals
Sunesis is a biopharmaceutical company developing new oncology therapeutics for the treatment of solid and hematologic cancers. Sunesis has built an experienced cancer drug development organization committed to improving the lives of people with cancer. The Company is focused on advancing its novel kinase-inhibitor pipeline, with an emphasis on establishing proof of concept that its oral non-covalent BTK-inhibitor, vecabrutinib (SNS-062), is effective in ibrutinib-resistant chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Vecabrutinib is currently being evaluated in a Phase 1b/2, open-label, sequential-group, dose-escalation and cohort-expansion study in adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia, or mantle cell lymphoma who have progressed after prior therapies. Beyond the development of vecabrutinib, the Company has two other kinase inhibitor programs, including the Takeda-partnered pan-RAF inhibitor TAK-580, which is in solid tumor trials, and Sunesis’ proprietary preclinical PDK1 inhibitor SNS-510, which is in preclinical development with an IND submission planned in 2019. PDK1 is a master kinase that activates other kinases important to cell growth and survival including members of the AKT, PKC, RSK and SGK families.
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