Gavin Wood

CFO at Adaptimmune

Gavin Wood has served as our Chief Financial Officer since April 2020 and is a member of our Executive Team.

Mr. Wood has held CFO and senior management roles in public companies in the life sciences sector since 2006. Most recently, he served as the Chief Financial Officer and a director of Abcam plc (LSE: ABC) from September 2016 through February 3, 2020, working as part of the executive team that led the company through a period of significant growth and change. Before that, he held a series of roles at Affymetrix Inc, (Nasdaq: AFFX) from 2006 to 2016, including serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2013 through March 2016, and managing the global finance, IT, internal audit and facilities functions, until the company was acquired by ThermoFisher Scientific.

Mr. Wood is a Chartered Accountant and holds a B.A. degree in Archaeology from the University of Durham, U.K.

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