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Ardelyx Appoints Mike Kelliher Chief Business Officer and James P. Brady Chief Human Resources Officer

Ardelyx Appoints Mike Kelliher Chief Business Officer and James P. Brady Chief Human Resources Officer

WALTHAM, Mass., June 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ardelyx, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDX), a biopharmaceutical company founded with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize innovative, first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs, today announced that Mike Kelliher, formerly Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy, has been promoted to Chief Business Officer, and James P. Brady has joined the company as Chief Human Resources Officer.

Since joining Ardelyx in March 2024, Mr. Kelliher has established himself as important leader driving Ardelyx’s long-term growth and value creation strategies. In his newly expanded role as Chief Business Officer, Mr. Kelliher will be responsible for lifecycle and portfolio management, in addition to his previous responsibilities for business development and corporate strategy.

Mr. Brady is a purpose-driven human resources executive with a proven track record of building organizations, leaders and teams in transformational life science and digital innovation technologies. Mr. Brady will be responsible for HR strategy and processes related to building and retaining a high performing team that can effectively support Ardelyx’s continued growth. 

“As we continue to grow and evolve our business, it is imperative that we have high caliber leaders, like Mike and Jamie, who will enable us to accelerate our momentum and deliver long-term impact for patients and shareholders,” said Mike Raab, Ardelyx president and chief executive officer. “Mike’s experiences, business intuition and leadership have brought incredible value to Ardelyx since his joining, and I am pleased to appoint him to this new role to expand his influence and responsibility. In addition, I’m incredibly excited to welcome Jamie to Ardelyx. A highly talented human resources executive, Jamie brings extensive experience in all aspects of people development and will be an influential part of advancing key business initiatives and talent strategies that align with our mission and objectives.”

Prior to joining Ardelyx, Mr. Kelliher served as Group Vice President, M&A and Business Development, at Horizon Therapeutics. Mr. Kelliher joined Horizon in 2014 and held roles of increasing responsibility on the team that led a successful growth and expansion agenda through acquisitions, development collaborations and other transactions, including the acquisition of Horizon by Amgen. Before his time at Horizon, from 2009 to 2014, Mr. Kelliher held financial roles at Elan Corporation (now Perrigo Company) and began his career in banking, public accounting and corporate finance. Mr. Kelliher currently serves on the board of directors of Capricor Therapeutics. Mr. Kelliher earned a Bachelor of Commerce from the University College Cork (Ireland) and is an Associated Chartered Accountant.

Mr. Brady has extensive human resources and organizational and talent development experience. Most recently, Mr. Brady served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Spero Therapeutics. While at Spero, Mr. Brady oversaw all aspects of the human resources function and was instrumental in implementing the company’s hybrid work model and earning the company a Best Places to Work recognition by the Boston Business Journal. Prior to Spero, Mr. Brady held the role of Chief Human Resources Officer at uniQure, as well as roles of increasing responsibility at Intarcia Therapeutics, Genzyme Corporation, and Thomson Financial. Mr. Brady earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from Marietta College and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University.

About Ardelyx

Ardelyx was founded with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize innovative, first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs. Ardelyx has two commercial products approved in the United States, IBSRELA® (tenapanor) and XPHOZAH® (tenapanor). Ardelyx has agreements for the development and commercialization of tenapanor outside of the U.S. Kyowa Kirin commercializes PHOZEVEL® (tenapanor) for hyperphosphatemia in Japan. A New Drug Application for tenapanor for hyperphosphatemia has been approved in China with Fosun Pharma. Knight Therapeutics commercializes IBSRELA in Canada. For more information, please visit  and connect with us on ,  and .

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