Savara Inc. announced the appointments of two pharmaceutical industry veterans to its executive leadership team. Rob Lutz has been appointed Chief Operating Officer, effectively immediately. Scott Wilhoit was appointed Executive Vice President, Global Commercial, effective January 9, 2023, and Dave Lowrance was promoted from Chief Financial Officer to Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, effective December 13, 2022.

From March 2021 to February 2023, Mr. Lutz, age 54, served as the Chief Financial and Business Officer of iBio Inc. (“iBio”), a biotechnology company developing precision antibody immunotherapies using an AI-driven platform. Previously, Mr. Lutz was employed by Strongbridge Biopharma plc (“Strongbridge”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on therapies that target rare diseases, where he served as Chief Financial Officer from August 2019 to March 2021 and as Chief Business Officer from October 2014 to August 2019. Prior to joining Strongbridge, Mr. Lutz worked from December 2004 to May 2014 at Shire Plc, a publicly traded specialty biopharmaceutical company prior to being purchased by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd., where he most recently served as Vice President and held key leadership positions in the Specialty Pharmaceutical division.

Prior to Shire Plc, Mr. Lutz worked in a variety of roles, including Vice President of Finance, for Cinergy Corp., an electric and gas utility company. Mr. Lutz also worked as a Senior Analyst at Alan B. Slifka and Co., a hedge fund, after having started his career at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., where he served as a Financial Analyst in its principal investment area. He holds a B.A. in Economics and Computer Science from Amherst College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management.