Still ear­ly stage, but this Flag­ship up­start re­cruit­ed a Big Phar­ma ex­ec with a $4.3M com­pen­sa­tion pack­age and an IPO plan

Back last spring when No­var­tis vet Bill Hin­shaw was wooed by his old boss to take the helm at Flag­ship start­up Ax­cel­la Health, he said he was ready to take a risk in mak­ing the leap from phar­ma multi­na­tion­al to a lit­tle start­up in Cam­bridge.

“In Big Phar­ma, you can paint on a big can­vas and that’s com­pelling at dif­fer­ent stages, but there’s in­no­v­a­tive pow­er avail­able right now in biotech,” Hin­shaw told End­points News.

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