Audentes Therapeutics, Inc. announced that Mark A. Meltz, J.D. has joined the company as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Sarah J. Spencer has joined the company as Vice President, Corporate Communications. In addition, Thomas P. Soloway, currently Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, has been promoted to the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. Tom will continue to lead the finance, accounting, and investor relations functions. Mark will lead the legal, compliance, and corporate governance functions. Sarah will be responsible for internal and external communications to build global awareness of the company, its mission, culture, and innovative product portfolio. Mark has nearly 20 years of leadership experience serving in various roles at global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as a top international law firm. He joins Audentes from PaxVax, a specialty vaccines company, where he managed business development, legal, compliance, and government affairs/public policy functions, and led the company's October 2018 sale to Emergent BioSolutions. Prior to joining PaxVax, Mark worked at Biogen Idec (now Biogen), where he served as the U.S. commercial lead lawyer for Tysabri and Tecfidera (including for its US launch), and as the lead lawyer for global medical affairs. Sarah has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare and life sciences communications. She joins Audentes from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) where she was most recently Head, US Corporate Communications. Sarah spent 13 years at GSK working in a variety of global communications roles both in the UK and the US where she had responsibility for corporate media relations, financial communications, crisis communications, reputation management, and product and pipeline communications. Sarah has worked directly with CEO & C-suite executives extensively. Prior to GSK, Sarah worked at Elan Pharmaceuticals (now Perrigo Company) where she led the launch communications for Tysabri and helped to build the profile of the company's neurology pipeline. Sarah also worked at Berry PR, a healthcare public relations agency, where she developed and executed communications strategies and campaigns for small and emerging biotech clients. Sarah began her career at Rite Aid Corporation where she served for eight years as a lead media spokesperson handling numerous high-profile issues and crises.