PASADENA, Calif., April 15, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that, effective May 13, 2025, Arrowhead’s Chief Financial Officer, Ken Myszkowski, will retire after 16 years of service to the company and will be succeeded by Daniel Apel, who has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Myszkowski will continue to serve as an employee adviser to assist and facilitate an effective transition.
"Ken has been a valuable member of the Arrowhead team, and he retires at a time of great financial strength for the company. The finance organization that Ken built over the years is very capable and provides strong support to our ambitious development and commercialization plans. I want to thank him for all his important contributions to Arrowhead," said Christopher Anzalone, Ph.D., President and CEO at Arrowhead. "I am also excited for Dan Apel to join Arrowhead as we make the transition from development stage to commercial stage, with the planned launch of plozasiran this year, pending regulatory review and approval. Dan is an accomplished pharmaceutical executive who can make an immediate and important impact on our business."
Mr. Apel joins the company from Walgreens Boots Alliance, where he served as Global Head of Financial Planning and Analysis from 2019 through 2024. Prior to joining Walgreens, Mr. Apel served in various significant roles in his nearly 20-year career at Bayer, including as Chief Financial Officer for Bayer U.S. from 2016 through 2019 and as Chief Financial Officer for Bayer Canada and global Head of Accounting for the Bayer Healthcare Segment, based in Germany. Mr. Apel has served on the boards of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and the Organization for International Investment, as well as a Trustee for the Health Institute of New Jersey. Mr. Apel earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, a Bachelors of Arts Degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.
About Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals develops medicines that treat intractable diseases by silencing the genes that cause them. Using a broad portfolio of RNA chemistries and efficient modes of delivery, Arrowhead therapies trigger the RNA interference mechanism to induce rapid, deep, and durable knockdown of target genes. RNA interference, or RNAi, is a mechanism present in living cells that inhibits the expression of a specific gene, thereby affecting the production of a specific protein. Arrowhead’s RNAi-based therapeutics leverage this natural pathway of gene silencing.
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