Nim­bus chief Don Nichol­son hits the ex­it, hand­ing top job over to Jeb Keiper

Jeb Keiper is mov­ing up to the CEO post at Nim­bus.

The high-pro­file biotech says Keiper, who joined Nim­bus in 2014 as head of busi­ness de­vel­op­ment, played a big role in forg­ing deals and fi­nanc­ing rounds that brought in $775 mil­lion — in­clud­ing a block­buster $400 mil­lion cash deal with Gilead for its NASH pro­gram.

It looks like we haven’t seen the last of found­ing CEO Don Nichol­son. In a state­ment, Nichol­son said he was look­ing for­ward to mov­ing on to the “next en­tre­pre­neur­ial chap­ter of my ca­reer,” wish­ing Keiper con­tin­ued suc­cess with his move up.

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