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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On March 5, 2021, Michael Swartzburg, the Vice President, Finance and interim Principal Accounting Officer of Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”), provided the Company with written notice that he has resigned from the Company. Mr. Swartzburg will continue to serve as the Vice President, Finance of the Company through March 19, 2021.
On March 11, 2021, the Company’s Board of Directors appointed Jean-Marc Bellemin, the Company’s current Chief Financial Officer, as the Company’s new Principal Accounting Officer.
Mr. Bellemin, 48, has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company since December 2020. Mr. Bellemin served as Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Gritstone Oncology, Inc., from January 2018 to November 2020. Prior to Gritstone, from January 2008 to December 2017, Mr. Bellemin served as senior vice president, market access, business solutions and services of Actelion Pharmaceuticals US Inc., or Actelion, a biotechnology company, until Actelion was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2017. Prior to Actelion, Mr. Bellemin held several financial leadership roles at Guerbet Group. Mr. Bellemin received a university degree in economics, a master’s degree in finance from Université Paris Dauphine, a postgraduate degree in finance and accounting from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and an M.B.A. degree from the ESSEC Business School in Paris, France.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: March 11, 2021 | IOVANCE BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ MARIA FARDIS | ||
| Maria Fardis, Chief Executive Officer | |||