WATERTOWN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acusphere, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACUS) today announced that Lawrence A. Gyenes joined the company as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary.
Mr. Gyenes has served as Chief Financial Officer at Rand McNally, Compuserve and Helene Curtis, as well as several specialty pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies including Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Savient Pharmaceuticals and Zila, Inc. He also served as chief advisor to senior management on the $7.8 billion sale of DuPont Pharmaceuticals to Bristol-Myers Squibb. He began his corporate career at G.D. Searle & Co, where he spent 15 years in progressively more responsible positions, completing his tenure there as Corporate Vice President, Finance, responsible for the company’s global finance and information technology functions. He began his career at the public accounting firm of Touche Ross & Co.