CIRM names former iPierian exec as first CFO

The former chief financial officer of stem cell company iPierian Inc. was hired for the same job at California’s stem cell research funding agency.
Matthew Plunkett, who also has worked as a biopharma investment banker at Oppenheimer & Co. and predecessor CIBC World Markets, was named the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s first chief financial officer. He worked at iPierian in South San Francisco from August 2009 to this past April, when he, along with much of the management team and a couple of board members, exited the company.