Agile Therapeutics, Inc Appoints Dennis P. Reilly as Chief Financial Officer, Effective August 5, 2019
July 18, 2019 at 05:00 pm IST
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Agile Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Dennis P. Reilly as Chief Financial Officer effective August 5, 2019. Mr. Reilly has had significant experience with commercial companies in the pharmaceutical and diagnostics sectors. Most recently, from 2017 to 2019, he served as Chief Financial and Operations Officer of Invisible Sentinel, Inc., a Philadelphia-based diagnostics company that was sold to BioMeriux. From 2009 to 2017, Mr. Reilly was the Chief Financial Officer of NeoStrata Company, Inc. In 2017, and where he oversaw several important initiatives to restructure the company and return it to financial growth. Prior to that, from 2005 to 2008, he served as the Chief Financial Officer, and prior to that role as Controller, of Barrier Therapeutics, Inc.
Agile Therapeutics, Inc. is a women's healthcare company, which is engaged in fulfilling the unmet health needs of women. Its product and product candidates are designed to provide women with contraceptive options that offer freedom from taking a daily pill, without committing to a longer-acting method. Its initial product, Twirla, (levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol), a transdermal system, is a non-daily prescription contraceptive. Twirla is based on its proprietary transdermal patch technology, called Skinfusion, which is designed to allow drug delivery through the skin. Twirla (levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol) transdermal system is a once-weekly combined hormonal contraceptive (CHC) patch that contains the active ingredients levonorgestrel (LNG), a type of progestin, and ethinyl estradiol (EE), a type of estrogen. Its potential product pipeline consists of two types of product candidates: a progestin-only (P-only) contraceptive patch and potential Twirla line extensions.