Acacia Pharma appoints Ian Kent as Chairman

09-Feb-2009 - United Kingdom

Acacia Pharma announced that Ian Kent has joined its Board of Directors as Non-executive Chairman.

Ian has a wealth of corporate experience having acted as Chairman and Non-executive Director of a number of successful biotechnology companies. He is currently Chairman of Intercytex Group plc, Argenta Discovery Limited and Avantium Holdings BV. Amongst others he chaired PIramed Ltd sold to Roche; Innovata plc merged with Vectura; Roslin Biomed sold to Geron Inc; and Imutran sold to Novartis. Previously he was Group Technical Director of Dalgety plc, Managing Director of FBC Limited and Agrochemical Director of the Boots Company. Between 1998 and 2001 he chaired the Government department responsible for all Common Agricultural Policy payments in the UK.

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