Relmada Therapeutics, Inc. announced that Maged Shenouda has been appointed the Company's new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Shenouda, who has nearly 30 years of biotechnology and equity research experience, has also stepped down from the Company's Board of Directors in order to join the executive management team. Relmada's current CFO, Charles Ence, will assume a new role in the expanded financial team as the Company's Chief Accounting and Compliance Officer.

Most recently, Mr. Shenouda served as CFO and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development for AzurRx BioPharma, a leader in developing non-systemic, recombinant proteins for the treatment of gastrointestinal and infectious diseases. Prior to his tenure at AzurRx, Mr. Shenouda was Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development and Licensing at Retrophin, Inc. Previous to this, Mr. Shenouda spent the bulk of his career on Wall Street as an equity research analyst. He held senior level positions at UBS, JP Morgan and Stifel Nicolaus, covering a broad range of small and large capitalization biotechnology companies.

Mr. Shenouda started his sell-side equity research career at Citigroup and Bear Stearns where his coverage universe focused on U.S and European pharmaceutical companies. Before entering Wall Street, he was a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Pharmaceutical Consulting practice and also spent time in pharmaceutical sales, having worked as a hospital representative and managed care specialist for Abbott Laboratories Pharmaceutical Products Division.