Who owns 20 million shares in Moderna?

Flagship funds retain 20 million shares in Moderna after the transactions. While Moderna’s chairman may be behind the biggest sales, the pharmaceutical executive who personally sold the most shares is Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel.

Who is the CEO of Moderna?

Bancel currently serves as chief executive officer ( CEO) and as a member of the board of directors. Since joining Moderna in 2011, he has led the company's expansion, partly by raising close to $2 billion through equity financing and licensing collaborations. Before Moderna, Bancel was CEO of bioMérieux SA, a French-based biotechnology company.

What happened to Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel's Twitter account?

On Feb. 11, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel sold 10,000 shares of company stock, valued at $1.8 million in total. By the following day, Bancel’s Twitter account, had disappeared without warning. Observers on Twitter found the relationship between these moves suspicious.

Did Bancel cash in on Moderna's stock?

Bancel is not the only Moderna executive to have recently cashed in on the company’s stock: Chief Technical Operations and Quality Officer, Juan Andres and Chief Financial Officer, David Meline also reportedly made sales that were done automatically to cover the taxes on stock that was given as pay.