– USA, FL – Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPRX), (Catalyst Pharmaceuticals), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies for people with rare debilitating diseases, today announced the appointment of Richard J. Daly and Donald A. Denkhaus to the Company’s Board of Directors.
“Catalyst is pleased to welcome such exceptional and successful pharmaceutical business leaders to its board, adding additional financial, operational and commercial expertise as we transform from a clinical stage company to a commercial operation,” said Patrick J. McEnany, Chairman and CEO of Catalyst.
About Richard J. Daly
Mr. Daly has over 20 years of commercial pharmaceutical experience working in positions of progressive responsibility in sales, marketing and operations. Recently, Mr. Daly was the President of U.S. Diabetes for the joint alliance between Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca. In the past Mr. Daly was a founding partner and board member of SagePath Partners LLC, a commercial outsourcing provider to the pharmaceutical industry. During his recent tenure at Takeda Pharmaceuticals he served as Executive Vice President with P&L responsibility for businesses across the U.S., Canada, and Central/South America. Earlier in his career, he served in the sales organizations at Merrell-Dow Pharmaceuticals (now part of Sanofi) and TAP Pharmaceuticals (formerly a division of Abbott Labs) in sales, marketing, operations and senior leadership positions at TAP and Takeda. Mr. Daly holds a BS in Microbiology from The University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
About Donald A. Denkhaus
Mr. Denkhaus is a senior financial executive and CPA with forty years of broad-based business experience. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on woman’s health and psychiatry from 2004 until it was sold in August 2009. He served as chairman of Noven’s Audit Committee and meets the SEC requirements as an “audit committee financial expert”. Mr. Denkhaus was with Arthur Andersen, global professional services firm, from 1970 to 2002, where he spent 22 years as an audit partner, including serving several publicly-held South Florida pharmaceutical companies. From 2010 through 2013 he was Chairman of Nuovo Biologics, LLC, a privately held company that is developing an antiviral drug, initially for animal use. Additionally, Mr. Denkhaus is currently chairman and chief financial officer of a privately-held company that provides dubbing and subtitling to the television industry. He received a Masters of Business Administration degree with a major in finance from the University of Maryland and a Bachelors of Business Administration with a major in accounting from Kent State University.
About Catalyst Pharmaceuticals
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies for people with rare debilitating diseases, including Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS), infantile spasms, and Tourette Syndrome. Catalyst’s lead candidate, Firdapse™ for the treatment of LEMS, recently completed testing in a global, multi-center, pivotal Phase 3 trial resulting in positive top-line data. Firdapse™ for the treatment of LEMS has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Firdapse™ is the first and only European approved drug for symptomatic treatment in adults with LEMS.
Catalyst is also developing CPP-115 to treat infantile spasms, epilepsy and other neurological conditions associated with reduced GABAergic signaling, like post-traumatic stress disorder and Tourette Syndrome. CPP-115 has been granted U.S. orphan drug designation for the treatment of infantile spasms by the FDA and has been granted E.U. orphan medicinal product designation for the treatment of West Syndrome by the European Commission.
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