Finch Therapeutics Announces Appointment of Dr. Jo Viney and Domenic Ferrante to Board of Directors
September 25, 2019 at 12:00 pm
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Finch Therapeutics Group, Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Jo Viney and Domenic Ferrante to its Board of Directors. Jo is an entrepreneurial scientist and experienced biotech executive. She has successfully advanced multiple programs into the clinic. Jo is a Co-Founder, President and CSO of Pandion Therapeutics, a startup company in Cambridge, Massachusetts focused on developing new therapies for treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Prior to Pandion, she worked at Immunex, Amgen, and most recently Biogen, where she was Senior Vice President of the Drug Discovery Organization. Throughout her career, Jo has been passionate about workplace inclusiveness. Since 2015 she has served on the Board of WEST, a non-profit organization supporting early to mid-career women. She was WEST’s President for the 2017 to 2018 term. Jo earned a BSc in biophysics from the University of East London and a PhD in Gut Immunology from St Bart’s Hospital, University of London. Jo is on the advisory Board for HotSpot Therapeutics and is a member of the Board of Directors for Quench Bio and Carogen Corp. in addition to Finch Therapeutics. Domenic is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of The Ferrante Group, an investment firm created to partner with well-positioned companies to create value over a long investment horizon. Domenic was a Managing Director of Bain Capital for 14 years and is an experienced investor in the private equity and venture capital industries. Earlier in his career, he worked at Brentwood Associates and Morgan Stanley. Domenic earned his BA in Economics from the University of Michigan and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He sits on the Investment Advisory Committee and the President’s Advisory Group at the University of Michigan, and holds leadership roles within philanthropic organizations, such as the Boys and Girls Club, Community School of Naples, and the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation.
Finch Therapeutics Group, Inc. is a microbiome technology company with a portfolio of intellectual property and microbiome assets. It is focused on realizing the value of its intellectual property estate and other assets, while supporting the advancement of its microbiome technology through partnerships and collaborations. It has an intellectual property estate, including more than 113 issued U.S. and foreign patents with relevance for both donor-derived and donor-independent microbiome therapeutics in a range of potential indications. Its assets include CP101, an orally administered microbiome candidate designed for the prevention of recurrent C. difficile infection (CDI), with positive clinical data from a Phase II randomized, placebo-controlled trial and a Phase II open-label trial, and pre-clinical assets that are designed to target ulcerative colitis, Crohnâs disease, and autism spectrum disorder. Additionally, it has also developed a biorepository of strains and samples.
FINCH THERAPEUTICS GROUP, INC. 
