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FORM 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 4, 2022
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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.
On March 4, 2022, Gina Consylman, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and the principal financial officer of bluebird bio, Inc. (“bluebird” or the “Company”), provided notice of her resignation from bluebird, effective April 3, 2022. The Company expects to appoint Jason F. Cole, the Company’s Chief Business Officer, to serve as principal financial officer.
Jason F. Cole, 48, was appointed as bluebird’s Chief Business Officer in November 2021. Mr. Cole previously served as bluebird’s Chief Operating and Legal Officer from February 2019 to November 2021. Prior to this role, Mr. Cole served as bluebird’s Chief Legal Officer since March 2016. Mr. Cole received an A.B. in Government from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements that are not statements of historical facts are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements, including statements regarding management succession plans. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve inherent risks, assumptions and uncertainties, including internal or external factors that are difficult to predict, may be beyond our control and could cause our future plans and objectives to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to the risk that our management succession plans could change and those described in bluebird’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as updated by its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this Current Report are made only as of the date of this Current Report and except as otherwise required by applicable law, bluebird undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.
SIGNATURES
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.
| Date: March 7, 2022 | bluebird bio, Inc. | ||||||||||
| By: | /s/ Helen C. Fu | ||||||||||
| Helen C. Fu | |||||||||||
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | |||||||||||