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| Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
On April 18, 2022, Mustang Bio, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Eliot M. Lurier as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Lurier provides consulting services to the Company pursuant to a consulting agreement (the “Danforth Consulting Agreement”) between the Company and Danforth Advisors, LLC (“Danforth”) and receives no compensation directly from the Company.
Mr. Lurier, age 63, has served as a consultant to several companies through Danforth, an advisory firm that provides operational and strategic support services to life science companies. Prior to joining Danforth, from September 2014 to December 2020, Mr. Lurier was Chief Financial Officer of the Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc., a preeminent diabetes research, clinical care, and education organization. Prior to this, Mr. Lurier served as Chief Financial Officer for a wide variety of public and private pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Lurier holds a B.S. in Accounting from Syracuse University and is a Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts.
No family relationships exist between Mr. Lurier and any of the Company’s directors or executive officers. Other than the Danforth Consulting Agreement, there are no arrangements between Mr. Lurier and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Lurier was selected as the Company’s principal financial officer, nor are there any transactions to which the Company is or was a participant and in which Mr. Lurier has a material interest subject to disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits.
The following exhibit is furnished herewith:
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| 99.1 | Consulting Agreement by and between Mustang Bio, Inc. and Danforth Advisors, LLC dated March 17, 2022. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted in Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101) |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| MUSTANG BIO, INC. | ||
| (Registrant) | ||
| Date: April 22, 2022 | ||
| By: | /s/ Manuel Litchman, M.D. | |
| Name: | Manuel Litchman, M.D. | |
| Title: | President and Chief Executive Officer | |