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| Item 5.02. | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
Departure of Senior Vice President, Finance
On April 1, 2026, Climb Bio, Inc. (the “Company”) and Cindy Driscoll, its Senior Vice President, Finance and principal accounting officer, mutually agreed that Ms. Driscoll would separate from the Company, effective April 30, 2026 (the “Separation Date”).
Appointment of Principal Accounting Officer
As a result of Ms. Driscoll’s separation, Dr. Altschuller, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer, will also serve as the Company’s principal accounting officer, effective as of the Separation Date.
Susan Altschuller, Ph.D., MBA, 44, has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer since October 2025. She most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Dragonfly Therapeutics, Inc., a private biotechnology company, from August 2024 to December 2024. Prior to that, she served as the Chief Financial Officer of Cerevel Therapeutics, Inc., or Cerevel, a publicly traded clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, from May 2023 until its acquisition by AbbVie Inc. in August 2024. Prior to joining Cerevel, Dr. Altschuller was Chief Financial Officer of ImmunoGen, Inc., or ImmunoGen, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, from July 2020 to March 2023. Before ImmunoGen, Dr. Altschuller worked at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a global biopharmaceutical company, where she served as Head of Enterprise Finance from April 2020 to July 2020 and Head of Investor Relations from January 2018 to April 2020. Dr. Altschuller holds a BSE in Biomedical Engineering with honors from Tulane University, a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as a director of Mural Oncology plc from November 2023 to September 2024 and is a founding board member of the HNRNP Family Foundation.
Dr. Altschuller does not have a family relationship with any of the Company’s officers or directors and has no direct or indirect interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
There have been no changes to Dr. Altschuller’s compensatory plans or arrangements in connection with her appointment described herein.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Climb Bio, Inc. | ||||||
| Date: April 3, 2026 | By: | /s/ Aoife Brennan | ||||
| Aoife Brennan, M.B., Ch.B. | ||||||
| President and Chief Executive Officer | ||||||