SuperSonic Imagine Appoints Jérôme Destoppeleir as Chief Financial Officer

Regulatory News :

SuperSonic Imagine (Paris:SSI) (Euronext: SSI, FR0010526814, eligible PEA-PME), a company specializing in ultrasound medical imaging and pioneer of ShearWave™ Elastography and UltraFast™ Doppler, announced today the appointment of Jérôme Destoppeleir as the Company’s new Chief Financial Officer. He is replacing Gordon Waldron, who is leaving on April 15, 2015 after more than 4 years in this post.

Jérôme Destoppeleir, aged 46, will direct the Financial strategy of the Group through its next phase of international growth and development. A graduate of HEC Paris, he began his career in 1992 within the PERNOD RICARD group, joining the ONET group in 2000 where he spent 9 years as CFO. He then held a number of CFO positions at the DELTA PLUS group, PGA MOTORS and HOMAIR VACANCES.

Jacques Souquet, SuperSonic Imagine’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, says: "I would like to welcome Jérôme, who has demonstrated first-rate professional abilities throughout his career, essential qualities to successfully undertake his new mission with SuperSonic Imagine. On behalf of the Board and management team, I would also like to wholeheartedly thank Gordon for his remarkable contribution, his unwavering commitment and for all that he has accomplished within our Company. He has played a formative role in the Company’s development by brilliantly negotiating two major fund-raising rounds and successfully leading last year’s IPO on the Euronext stock exchange. Gordon’s decision is in no way motivated by any professional considerations within the Company and I wish him all the best in his future endeavors.”

Gordon Waldron adds: "I also want to warmly welcome Jerome to the Company. I leave with great memories of the years spent working with the employees and shareholders of SuperSonic Imagine. We have accomplished a lot together and brought the Company into a new league. This transition was initiated for purely personal reasons and I wanted to make sure that it happened at the most suitable time for SuperSonic Imagine. Right now the Company is financially solid and in the good hands of a highly experienced management team, which is fully equipped to implement a high-growth strategy.”

Next press release: Q1 2015 revenue, on April 21, 2015.

About SuperSonic Imagine
Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence (France), SuperSonic Imagine is a company specializing in medical imaging. The company designs, develops and markets a revolutionary ultrasound system, Aixplorer®, with an UltraFast™ platform that can acquire images 200 times faster than conventional ultrasound systems. Aixplorer® is the only system that can image two types of waves: ultrasound waves ensure excellent image quality and shear waves, which allow physicians to visualize and analyze the stiffness of tissue in a real-time, reliable, reproducible and non-invasive manner. This innovation, ShearWave™ Elastography, significantly improves the detection and characterization of numerous pathologies in several applications including breast, thyroid, liver and prostate. SuperSonic Imagine has been granted regulatory clearances for the commercialization of Aixplorer® in the main global markets. Over the past years, SuperSonic Imagine enjoyed the backing of several prestigious investors, among which Auriga Partners, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Bpifrance, Omnes Capital and NBGI. For more information about SuperSonic Imagine, please go to www.supersonicimagine.com.