Allena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that Edward Wholihan has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer and Robert Alexander has been named to the Board of Directors. Wholihan brings more than 25 years of financial, operational, and global business development leadership in the healthcare and technology sectors to the company. Alexander currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of ZS Pharma.

Wholihan joins Allena after a series of successful CFO roles in high growth healthcare and life science companies. Most recently, he served as CFO of Medical Specialties Distributors (MSD) Alexander is currently CEO of ZS Pharma. Prior to ZS Pharma, Robert was a Director at Alta Partners.