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RETROPHIN, INC. FILES (8-K) Disclosing Change in Directors or Principal Officers, Financial Statements and Exhibits
[October 02, 2014]

RETROPHIN, INC. FILES (8-K) Disclosing Change in Directors or Principal Officers, Financial Statements and Exhibits


(Edgar Glimpses Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On September 30, 2014, the Board of Directors of Retrophin, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Stephen Aselage as the Company's interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately, to replace Martin Shkreli, the Company's founder and Chief Executive Officer.



Prior to his appointment as the Company's interim Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Aselage, age 63, previously served as the Company's President and Chief Operations Officer since May 2014, and has served as a director of the Company since December 2012. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Aselage served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer at BioMarin, a biotechnology company, from December 2009 through September 2012. From July 2005 to December 2009, Mr. Aselage served as BioMarin's Senior Vice President of Global Commercial Development. From February 2004 to June 2005, Mr. Aselage served as Executive Vice President of Global Commercial Operations at Cell Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on cancer therapeutics. From September 2003 to January 2004, Mr. Aselage served as Senior Vice President of North American Sales and Marketing for the Transplant Division of Genzyme Corporation, a biotechnology company, following Genzyme's acquisition of Sangstat Medical Corporation where he had worked since February 1999. While at Sangstat, Mr. Aselage restructured the company's sales, marketing and medical affairs groups. From 1996 through 1999, Mr. Aselage served as Director of Sales and Marketing at Advanced Tissue Sciences, a biotechnology company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Aselage held a variety of sales and sales management positions at biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies including Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Pharmaceuticals (now Sanofi-Aventis), Genentech, Inc., and Bristol Laboratories, a biopharmaceutical company. Mr. Aselage holds a B.S. in biology from the University of Notre Dame.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.


(d) Exhibits.

99.1 Press Release of Retrophin, Inc. dated September 30, 2014.

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