Finch Therapeutics Appoints Samuel Allen Hamood to Its Board of Directors
October 05, 2021 at 12:00 pm
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Finch Therapeutics Group, Inc. announced that Samuel Allen (Al) Hamood has joined Finch’s Board of Directors. Mr. Hamood is an accomplished executive with over 30 years of experience in finance, business development, corporate strategy, and M&A across several global industry sectors. Mr. Hamood is currently the President and Chief Administrative and Financial Officer of Culligan International, a multi-billion-dollar global consumer water services corporation operating in over 90 countries. Prior to Culligan, Mr. Hamood served as the acting Chief Executive Officer and President of ATI Physical Therapy, where he managed nearly 1,000 clinics and led over 8,000 employees. Before joining ATI, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Change Healthcare, a multi-billion-dollar healthcare technology company. Prior to joining Change Healthcare, Mr. Hamood was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of TransUnion, a multinational global information services company. Earlier in his career he held a variety of finance and strategy roles at Hewlett Packard (formerly known as “EDS”), the Walt Disney Company, and Deloitte & Touche.
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. 
