Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. announced the appointment of Heather Rees as the Company?s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ms. Rees most recently served as Atossa?s Senior Vice President of Finance and Principal Accounting Officer. Atossa is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines in areas of significant unmet medical need in oncology with a focus on breast cancer.

Ms. Rees brings almost 30-years of accounting, business and financial experience to the CFO role. She has spent the last seven years of her career at Atossa having joined the Company as Controller in 2017. Prior to joining Atossa, Ms. Rees led a consulting practice that delivered financial and accounting services to companies including Getty Images Inc., Flow International Corp, and Avalara, Inc. Earlier in her career she served as Controller of the Americas for Irdeto Inc. She began her career at Deloitte & Touche where she rose to the level of Sr. Manager in the firm?s Audit practice.

Ms. Rees was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant by the state of Washington in 1996.