Certara brings Cue Health CFO to lead finance

• Health tech firm Certara, Inc. (NASDAQ:CERT) announced Wednesday that John Gallagher, who until recently served as the chief financial officer at diagnostics company Cue Health (NASDAQ:HLTH), will be its new chief financial officer effective Apr. 01.
• Gallagher succeeds Andrew Schemick, who will serve as the Senior Vice President, Corporate Operations and Integration, a newly created role, while supporting the leadership transition.
• Before joining Cue (HLTH), Gallagher served Becton Dickinson (BDX) for nine years in various roles, including CFO of its medical segment. The announcement coincided with Certara’s (CERT) Q4 2022 financials, which exceeded expectations.
• Meanwhile, Cue (HLTH) announced on Wednesday the resignation of Gallagher effective Mar. 16.
• “The company is appreciative of the service of Mr. Gallagher and his resignation is not the result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices,” Cue (HLTH) said in a regulatory filing.
• The company has promoted Aasim Javed, another Becton, Dickinson (BDX) executive, and Cue’s (HLTH) current Vice President of Finance and Treasurer as its new CFO and Principal Financial Officer.

This was corrected on 03/01/2023 at 4:59 PM. This article was corrected to reflect that John Gallagher joins Certara (CERT) as its new CFO. A previous version of the article incorrectly suggeested he joins as the company's new CEO.