electroCore, Inc. announced that the company’s current Chairman of the Board, Carrie S. Cox, will resign from the Board effective March 31, 2020. Ms. Cox also served on electroCore’s Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees. Michael Atieh, who joined the company’s Board in June 2018, will assume the role of Chairman. Prior to his retirement in 2016, Mr. Atieh served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Business Officer at Ophthotech, Inc. His previous experience included roles as Executive Chairman of Eyetech Inc.; Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of OSI Pharmaceuticals; and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dendrite International, Inc., a pharmaceutical services company. In the 1990s, he held various senior corporate positions, including Treasurer of Merck & Co., Inc. and Vice President of US Human Health, a division of Merck. Mr. Atieh currently serves on the board of directors of Chubb Limited where he is a member of the Risk and Finance Committee. His previous public company board experience was with Theravance Biopharma and OSI Pharmaceuticals, where he also served as Chair of the Audit Committee.
electroCore, Inc. is a commercial stage bioelectronic medicine and wellness company. It provides non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (nVNS) technology platform. The Companyâs product categories include Handheld, personal use medical devices for the management and treatment of certain medical conditions such as primary headache, and Handheld, personal use consumer products utilizing nVNS technology to promote general wellness and human performance. Its products include gammaCore, Truvaga and TAC-STIM. Its gammaCore Sapphire, is a prescription medical device that is used for a variety of primary headache conditions. Its Truvaga is a personal use consumer electronics general wellness product that does not require a prescription and is available direct-to-consumer from electroCore at www.truvaga.com. The Companyâs TAC-STIM product is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, cure, mitigate, prevent, or treat a disease or condition.