BioNTech says Novartis executive Zapata-Gomez to become CFO

(Reuters) – German COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech said on Monday that Ramon Zapata-Gomez will become its new finance chief from July 1.

Zapata-Gomez is currently CFO of Novartis unit Novartis BioMedical Research and will take over from Jens Holstein who, as previously announced, will retire from BioNTech on June 30.

(Reporting by Isabel Demetz and Ludwig Burger)