RE: Conference12 Jan 2025 20:30
To all those with short memory or with dementia, may I remind you Tim was hired as a chairman to the company Immupharma during previous phase 3 trial. It was during this stage Tim made a fundraise of approximately up to £10m (or somewhere of that amount can't remember exactly), before the phase 3 results was out. Everyone thought it probably was not needed as consensus was the phase 3 trial will succeed and Immupharma will be taken out by a big pharma.
But the results of the trial was it failed the endpoints.
In my eyes, the drug (Lupuzor) worked. The trial failed.
Tim's fundraise before the results was a 'insurance policy' and it turned out just that. After the results, with only one product Lupuzor on SLE, Immupharma was down on its knees. But the fundraise kept it on life support and continued operating.
Had it not been for Tim's fundraise, Immupharma would not be in existence today. They would have most certainly gone bust, liquidated and what have you. Everyone who invested then would have lost all their money.
Tim saved the company which even today gone unnoticed.
At some point after the results, Tim became the CEO in 2019 I believed, replacing Dimitri Dimitriou (my personal opinion on this was I think he was 'pushed' out by institutional investors but that for another story). In Tim's 'short' tenure as CEO he has transformed Immupharma by reorganised, brought more products onto the pipeline and on the cusp of doing more licencing/partnering deals.
Tim is a businessman not a scientist. Tim's job is to run the business. He have to work on the only tool (Lupuzor) that he's given. It is what it is. Yet we have the same people on here lambasting Tim performance. If they can't see what achievements Tim have done so far, sell up and get the hell out of this shares. They moaned about Tim's past failures from his past companies he worked.
Has anyone moaning here invested in those companies Tim worked? Does anyone cares?
As far as I'm concerned, I have never invested in Tim's past companies. My concern is here in Immupharma because I'm invested here and its here I'll judge Tim achievements. So far I am pleased and satisfied with his performance.
As dallo said, AIM listed biotechs are littered with failures. How many have succeeded with a drug and went onto the market?