New­ly named Abeona chief Carsten Thiel boot­ed af­ter the board ac­cus­es him of mis­con­duct in­volv­ing col­leagues

Just 6 months af­ter land­ing the top job at Abeona Ther­a­peu­tics $ABEO, CEO Carsten Thiel has been un­cer­e­mo­ni­ous­ly boot­ed from the ex­ec­u­tive suite, ac­cused of un­spec­i­fied “per­son­al mis­con­duct” in­volv­ing his in­ter­ac­tions with col­leagues at the com­pa­ny.

Ac­cord­ing to Abeona, a cell and gene ther­a­py start­up:

Dr. Thiel’s ter­mi­na­tion fol­lows an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by in­de­pen­dent mem­bers of the Com­pa­ny’s Board of Di­rec­tors and ex­ter­nal coun­sel in­to al­le­ga­tions of mis­con­duct to­wards col­leagues that the Board con­clud­ed vi­o­lat­ed the Com­pa­ny’s Code of Busi­ness Con­duct and Ethics and was in­con­sis­tent with its ex­pec­ta­tions for Abeona’s CEO.

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