PolarityTE, Inc. announced the appointment of Richard Hague as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hague joined the Company in April 2019 as Chief Operating Officer and served in the Office of the Chief Executive beginning in August 2019 until April 2020, when he began serving as the Company’s President in addition to Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Hague is an accomplished biotechnology executive with extensive experience across multiple disciplines in companies at various stages of product development and commercialization. Before joining PolarityTE, Mr. Hague was the Chief Commercial Officer at Anika Therapeutics, where he oversaw all global commercial activities, as well as the R&D and Clinical Research functions. Prior to his tenure with Anika, Mr. Hague was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at TEI Medical, where he led the significant sales growth of their wound care product platform, which was later acquired by Integra LifeSciences. He spent a significant portion of his career at Genzyme and later Sanofi (following Sanofi’s acquisition of Genzyme), where he held positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in his role as VP/General Manager of Sanofi’s Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Business Unit. While at Genzyme, Mr. Hague was involved in the launch of the first autologous cell therapy product that ultimately led to FDA’s establishment of the BLA regulatory pathway. Subsequently, he has led the successful development and launch of several innovative products in the biologics and medical device arenas.