Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that Jim Fickenscher will replace Richard Baron as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Corporate Development, effective September 13, 2016. Mr. Fickenscher joins Zynerba with 28 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at Antares Pharma, a commercial pharmaceutical company focused on self-administered parenteral products.

He has also held roles as CFO at Auxilium Pharmaceuticals and Aventis Behring LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aventis, predecessor to Sanofi S.A, as well as business development and strategic planning positions. Mr. Baron will remain with the company through the transition into September 2016. Zynerba also announced the appointment of Nancy Tich, MS, Ph.D, as Vice President, Clinical, a newly created position.

Dr. Tich joins Zynerba with more than 26 years of clinical project management experience. Most recently, Dr. Tich served as Senior Director, Project Management, at Covance. She has also held senior clinical roles at Omnicare, Elan Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Laboratories.