Gavin Wood becomes CFO at Adaptimmune

Company
Adaptimmune Therapeutics Plc
Appointee name
Gavin Wood
Country

United Kingdom

Adaptimmune Therapeutics Plc has appointed Gavin Wood as chief financial officer, effective 1 April, as it prepares to commercialise its first immunotherapy for cancer in 2022. Mr Wood most recently served as CFO and a director of Abcam Plc and before that, as an executive at Affymetrix Inc, a company that was acquired by ThermoFisher Scientific Inc in 2016. Mr Wood is a chartered accountant and holds a bachelor of arts degree in archaeology from the University of Durham, UK.

Adaptimmune announced the appointment on 18 February 2020.

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