Deerfield, Il., USA - June 19, 2014, Deerfield, Il., USA - Horizon Pharma, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, announced that Robert J. De Vaere, its current chief financial officer, will retire on September 30, 2014.
Article continues below
Mr. De Vaere has served as Horizon executive vice president and chief financial officer since our inception in March 2010 and as the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Horizon Pharma USA since October 2008. From May 2007 to June 2009, Mr. De Vaere served as senior vice president, finance and administration and chief financial officer at IDM, which was acquired by Takeda in 2009.
From August 2006 to April 2007, Mr. De Vaere served as chief financial officer at Nexa Orthopedics, Inc., a medical device company, which was acquired by Tornier, Inc. in February 2007. From August 2005 to March 2006, he served as vice president, finance and administration and chief financial officer at IDM.
From May 2000 to August 2005, he served as vice president and chief financial officer at Epimmune Incorporated, a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of vaccines, which was combined with IDM in August 2005.
Prior to 2000, Mr. De Vaere served as vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer at Vista Medical Technologies, Inc., a medical device company.
Mr. De Vaere received his B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles. At the time of his retirement, Mr. De Vaere will enter into a one-year consulting agreement with the Company to support the ongoing integration of Vidara following the closing of the acquisition and to provide general business support and guidance as the company seeks to continue its recent growth, both organically and through acquisition.
The Company has also named Paul W. Hoelscher as Executive Vice President, Finance, effective June 23, 2014 and its Chief Financial Officer, effective October 1, 2014.
Mr. Hoelscher joins Horizon from OfficeMax, Inc. where he was most recently Senior Vice President, Finance and was co-lead in integration planning activities related to its recent merger with Office Depot. Prior to that, Mr. Hoelscher spent almost nineteen years at Alberto Culver/Unilever in various senior financial roles progressing to Vice President, Finance. ■