Intercell AG appoints Staph Leavenworth Bakali as Chief Business Officer

05-Oct-2010 - Austria

Intercell AG announced that effective October 1, 2010, Staph Leavenworth Bakali will join its Management Board as Chief Business Officer with key responsibilities for the commercial aspects of the Company, directly leading Marketing and Sales, Corporate and Business Development, and Alliance Management. Staph will also play a key role with the other Management Board members in helping drive forward the Company's strategy. Prior to the appointment to Intercell AG's Management Board, Staph had stepped down from his position as member of the Supervisory Board of the company.

Staph brings 20 years of vaccine industry experience from his previous leadership positions. He was recently Chief Executive Officer of Genocea Biosciences, a Boston (U.S.) based innovative biotech vaccine company, and previously Chief Operating Officer for ID Biomedical (Vancouver, Canada) and PowderJect (Oxford, UK), which were acquired by GlaxoSmithKline and Chiron, respectively. Staph Bakali was also previously head of Sales and Marketing for Chiron's global vaccine business and SmithKline Beecham's Vaccine Business Unit in France. Staph holds a Masters degree in Management from the London Business School.

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