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Apollomics Appoints Matthew Plunkett, Ph.D. as Chief Financial Officer
FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 4, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Apollomics Inc. ( Apollomics or the Company ), a clinical-stage
biopharmaceutical company developing medicines to address difficult-to-treat cancers, today announced that Matthew Plunkett, Ph.D., has been appointed as Chief Financial
Officer of Apollomics.
It s our pleasure to welcome Matt to the Apollomics team. We expect his financial strategy and business development
expertise from working with development and commercial stage public companies to be a critical asset as we execute our clinical, regulatory and commercialization plans, said Guo-Liang Yu, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Apollomics. His appointment comes at a time of promising opportunity and growth for the company. We look forward to his contributions as we continue to execute on our vision of bringing vebreltinib and our other pipeline candidates through
clinical trials and towards regulatory approval.
Dr. Plunkett added, I am excited to join Apollomics at such an important point in the
Company s growth. The data for vebreltinib in various c-Met driven malignancies is compelling, and I look forward to working with the Apollomics leadership team to advance this drug candidate through
development and help bring it to patients who could benefit from its differentiated activity and profile.
Dr. Plunkett brings to Apollomics
over 25 years of diverse strategic and financial experience within the biopharmaceutical sector, most recently as Chief Financial Officer at Aeovian Pharmaceuticals. Prior to Aeovian, he was Chief Financial Officer at Imago Biosciences (acquired by
Merck), where he led the efforts for the company s $155 million Nasdaq initial public offering (IPO). He was previously Chief Financial Officer at Nkarta Therapeutics, where he led the efforts for its $290 million Nasdaq IPO. He has
held positions including Chief Business Officer at CTI BioPharma (acquired by SOBI), a commercial stage hematology-oncology biopharmaceutical company, where he led a variety of financing and corporate development transactions.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Plunkett held a variety of positions at CIBC World Markets and its U.S. successor Oppenheimer & Co., including Managing Director, Head of West Coast Biotechnology. Dr. Plunkett received his B.S. in
chemistry from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
About Apollomics Inc.
Apollomics Inc. is an innovative clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of oncology therapies with the potential to
be combined with other treatment options to harness the immune system and target specific molecular pathways to inhibit cancer. Apollomics currently has a pipeline of nine drug candidates across multiple programs, six of which are currently in the
clinical stage of development. Apollomics lead programs include vebreltinib (APL-101), a potent, selective c-Met inhibitor for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer and other advanced tumors with c-Met alterations, and uproleselan (APL-106), a specific E-Selectin antagonist that has the potential to be used adjunctively with standard chemotherapy to treat acute myeloid leukemia. For more information, please visit http://www.apollomics.com.
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including: (i) the impact of any current or new government regulations in the United States and China affecting Apollomics operations and the continued listing of Apollomics securities; (ii) the inability to achieve successful
clinical results or to obtain licensing of third-party intellectual property rights for future discovery and development of Apollomics oncology projects; (iii) the failure to commercialize product candidates and achieve market acceptance
of such product candidates; (iv) the failure to protect intellectual property, and the risk of litigious claims, proceedings, litigation or other types of disputes related to Apollomics business, licenses or intellectual property;
(v) breaches in data security; (vi) the risk that Apollomics may not be able to develop and maintain effective internal controls; (vii) unfavorable changes to the regulatory environment; and those risks and uncertainties discussed in
the Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed by Apollomics Inc. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) on April 28, 2023, under the heading
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