Zio­pharm finds new CEO af­ter six-month search; CFO tran­si­tion at Lon­za to take place in De­cem­ber

Less than a year re­moved from a suc­cess­ful ac­tivist at­tack, Zio­pharm On­col­o­gy ap­point­ed a new CEO this week. Tak­ing the reins will be Kevin Boyle, who comes over af­ter lead­ing Ku­ur Ther­a­peu­tics to a $185 mil­lion buy­out back in May.

It’s been a tough few years for Zio­pharm, which in ad­di­tion to tak­ing on the with­er­ing ac­tivist at­tack saw sig­nif­i­cant turnover at the C-suite lev­el, cul­mi­nat­ing in long­time CEO Lau­rence Coop­er hit­ting the ex­it in Feb­ru­ary. That kicked off a near­ly half-year search that has now found Boyle set to take charge.

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