Bluebird Bio, Inc. Appoints Gina Consylman as Chief Financial Officer
September 07, 2021 at 04:05 pm EDT
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bluebird bio, Inc. announced the Gina Consylman appointed chief financial officer. Gina Consylman joined bluebird in August 2021 as the CFO of the severe genetic disease business, overseeing finance, tax, accounting, treasury, insurance and investor relations. She has over 25 years of experience in finance, investor relations, strategy and business development. Prior to joining bluebird, she served as senior vice president and CFO at Ironwood Pharmaceuticals. Before Ironwood, Gina served as vice president, corporate controller and principal accounting officer at Analogic Corporation, a publicly-held healthcare and security technology solutions company, where she oversaw the company’s global accounting and treasury teams.
bluebird bio, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The Company is focused on researching, developing, and commercializing potentially curative gene therapies for severe genetic diseases based on its lentiviral vector (LVV) gene addition platform. Its lead gene therapy programs for sickle cell disease, B-thalassemia, and cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy and is advancing research to apply new technologies to these and other diseases. It has two gene therapies: ZYNTEGLO (betibeglogene autotemcel) and SKYSONA (elivaldogene autotemcel). ZYNTEGLO is the first gene therapy for people with B-thalassemia who require regular red blood cell transfusions. SKYSONA (elivaldogene autotemcel), also known as eli-cel, is used to slow the progression of eurologic dysfunction in boys 4-17 years of age with early, active cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD). It is also developing (lovotibeglogene autotemcel), also known as lovo-cel, as a one-time treatment for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD).