Sagimet Biosciences Inc. announced the appointment of Thierry Chauche as Chief Financial Officer, effective May 6, 2024. Mr. Chauche brings to Sagimet more than twenty years of financial, strategic planning, and corporate leadership experience in finance and biopharma companies. Most recently he served as Chief Financial Officer of Provention Bio, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on intercepting and preventing immune-mediated diseases including Type 1 Diabetes, where he built up and led finance, investor relations, and information technology teams supporting market creation and a transformational therapeutic launch and commercialization.

At Provention, he also focused on the successful execution of several financings, and an M&A strategy leading to a $2.9Bn acquisition of the company by Sanofi. Before Provention Bio, Mr. Chauche was the Vice President and Head of Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis at Alexion Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Alexion Pharmaceuticals, he served in roles of increasing responsibility at Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, and Rothschild & Cie.

Mr. Chauche holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a MS in engineering from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech in Paris, France.