Agile Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Amy Welsh to Chief Commercial Officer effective November 1, 2022. Additionally, James P. Tursi, M.D. has informed the Company that he will resign from the Company's board of directors effective October 7, 2022. In addition to her current responsibilities leading the Twirla marketing team, Ms. Welsh, as Chief Commercial Officer, will assume responsibility for all the Company's commercial functions.

Ms. Welsh joined the Company in May 2020 as Vice President, Marketing. Prior to joining Agile, Ms. Welsh was a Vice President, Marketing at Antares Pharma, Inc., and held various roles of increasing responsibility at AstraZeneca. The Company has also appointed Geoffrey P. Gilmore to the newly created role of Chief Administrative Officer.

In this role, Mr. Gilmore will be responsible for all the Company's general and administrative (“G&A”) functions, including corporate secretary, legal, human resources, finance, investor relations and quality assurance. This will enable the Company to consolidate and streamline its G&A functions into one group. Mr. Gilmore previously served as the Company's General Counsel.

The Company's executive leadership team will also include Robert G. Conway, the Company's Chief Corporate Planning and Supply Chain Officer, who will be responsible for the Company's manufacturing and supply chain functions as well as corporate planning, and Paul Korner, M.D., M.B.A, the Company's Chief Medical Officer, who will be responsible for the Company's medical and research functions and will be part of the Company's business development team. On October 4, 2022, Dr. Tursi informed the board of directors that he intends to resign from the board of directors to focus more of his time on his role as Executive Vice President, Global Research & Development of Endo Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Tursi joined the board of directors in 2016 and currently chairs the board's Science and Technology Committee and serves as a member of the Compensation Committee.

The Company does not intend to fill Dr. Tursi's seat. The board of directors is evaluating how it intends to fill Dr. Tursi's committee assignments.