Cue Health Announces Strategic Actions to Position Company for Next Stage
March 20 2024 - 5:21PM
Business Wire
Clint Sever Appointed CEO
Board Appoints Two Strategic Advisors Who Bring
Significant Industry Expertise
Cue Health Inc. ("Cue" or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: HLTH), a
healthcare technology company, today announced strategic actions
implemented by its Board of Directors (the “Board”) to best
position the Company for its next stage:
- Clint Sever, co-founder and current Chief Product Officer, has
been appointed CEO, effective immediately. Sever succeeds Ayub
Khattak, who is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer,
President, and Chairman. Khattak will remain a member of the Board
of Directors.
- The Board has appointed two strategic advisors, who have
specific subject matter expertise in important areas related to
Cue’s business and industry, including in the commercialization of
diagnostics, healthcare regulations and R&D: Dr. Paul Brown,
former President and CEO of Roche Molecular Diagnostics, and Dr.
Lisa Danzig, former Global Head of Medical & Scientific Affairs
at Grifols (formerly Novartis Diagnostics). Brown brings extensive
expertise in molecular diagnostics and experience with regulatory
matters and successfully evaluating and commercializing leading
genomics offerings. Danzig is an expert in vaccines and has almost
two decades of experience in vaccine and diagnostics development.
Both Brown and Danzig will provide their expertise and independent
perspectives to the Board.
- Cue will initiate a comprehensive review of the Company’s
business and operations, with a focus on assessing opportunities to
refine and strengthen Cue’s overarching strategy and cost
structure. This review is intended to strengthen Cue’s position for
the future.
“The Board appreciates Ayub’s leadership and dedication
throughout his tenure as CEO. Ayub, together with Clint, built an
inspiring healthcare technology platform driven by a clear purpose
to deliver best-in-class diagnostics testing and lead the forefront
of innovation,” said the Cue Board of Directors. “Cue has an
outstanding executive team and we are confident that Clint can
seamlessly assume the CEO role, given his deep experience,
expertise and familiarity with Cue. We are also pleased to have
Paul and Lisa join Cue as strategic advisors, whose experience and
insights will be critical to Cue’s next phase. As we look ahead, we
believe it is important to implement these various actions while
also reviewing our business with a focus on assessing opportunities
to sharpen our strategy and reduce execution costs. The Board and
leadership team will advance these efforts in order to best
position Cue to enter its next stage, while creating value for
shareholders.”
“Cue was founded on the vision of diagnostic-enabled healthcare
for everyone, where fast, accurate, and easy-to-use testing is
connected seamlessly to care and treatment, empowering people to
live their healthiest lives. This vision continues to inspire and
drive the important work we do every day,” said Clint Sever, CEO of
Cue.
“It has been a privilege to lead the Cue team for the past 14
years and I’m proud of the pioneering work we have done to bring
lab-quality molecular diagnostics into the home and point of care,”
said Ayub Khattak. “Throughout my leadership at Cue, we’ve embraced
the challenge of enhancing healthcare through technology and our
commitment has always been to deliver diagnostic solutions that
empower individuals and support healthcare providers. I remain
excited about the future vision of Cue’s molecular testing products
and look forward to the Company’s continued progress under Clint’s
leadership.”
About Clint Sever
Clint Sever is co-founder of Cue Health and has served as Chief
Product Officer since its inception. Sever has been responsible for
product development, product design, and hardware engineering at
Cue, including the look and feel of Cue products, user interface,
and packaging. Additionally, Sever has overseen operations and
supply chain development, and scaled manufacturing of Cue
consumable cartridges, cartridge readers, and accessories. He is
also responsible for the design and engineering of the facilities
in which Cue products are made. Sever received a Bachelor of
Science degree in retail and consumer science from the University
of Arizona, as well as minors in marketing and business. Sever
holds over 60 patents.
About Dr. Paul Brown
Dr. Paul Brown is the former Global Head of Roche Molecular
Solutions. He was responsible for overseeing the Company’s
Molecular Diagnostics, Tissue Diagnostics and Sequencing Solutions
Business Units globally. Prior to this position, Brown was
President and Chief Executive Officer of Roche Molecular
Diagnostics where he substantially grew its core businesses of
virology, blood screening and infectious diseases, while improving
the medical value and increasing the testing efficiency of products
in development in the diagnostic areas of microbiology, oncology
and genomics. Starting his career at Roche in 1986, Brown also held
several leadership roles within the pharmaceutical division,
including General Manager of Sweden, Vice President of Sales and
Marketing in Canada, and Lifecycle Leader for Tamiflu® and
Xenical®.
About Dr. Lisa Danzig
Dr. Lisa Danzig is Vice President, Development and Medical
Affairs at PaxVax, a specialty vaccine company in Redwood City,
California. She joined PaxVax in early 2015 as a Special Advisor
for Clinical and Medical Affairs, following an 18-year-tenure in
Vaccine and Diagnostics Development roles, most recently as Global
Head of Medical & Scientific Affairs at Grifols (formerly
Novartis Diagnostics).
Danzig is an expert in vaccines. She has contributed to the
development of meningococcal vaccines (Menjugate®, Menveo® and
Bexsero®) and has worked in Siena, Italy, Cambridge, MA, and
Hangzhou, China. During her two years as an EIS officer with the
U.S. CDC, she investigated outbreaks of healthcare associated
infections and taught epidemiology in Côte d’Ivoire to district
health officers in West Africa.
Danzig received her medical degree from Oregon Health Sciences
University and completed residency and fellowship training in
Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases in San Francisco. She is
an independent director at OrSense, and serves on the boards of the
Merola Opera Program and the Karuna Foundation and is an advisor to
Kernel and The Batchery.
About Cue
Cue Health Inc. (Nasdaq: HLTH) is a healthcare technology
company that uses diagnostic-enabled care to empower people to live
their healthiest lives. Cue’s platform offers individuals and
healthcare providers convenient and personalized access to
lab-quality diagnostic tests at home and at the point-of-care, as
well as on-demand telehealth consultations and treatment options
for a wide range of health and wellness needs. Cue’s customers
include federal and state public sector agencies and the private
sector, which includes healthcare providers, enterprises, and
individual consumers. Cue received De Novo authorization from the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its COVID-19 test,
which became the first home use respiratory test to receive this
FDA approval. Cue also received Emergency Use Authorization from
the FDA for its molecular Mpox test at the point-of-care and, to
expand its test menu, Cue has a number of other submissions under
review by the FDA. Cue, founded in 2010, owns over 100 patents and
is headquartered in San Diego. For more information, please visit
www.cuehealth.com.
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