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A Connecticut pharma consultant claims he was offered the CEO job at a well-connected biotech startup — and now he’s suing the company because they didn’t ultimately give it to him.

Terence Kelly, who spent 20 years at Boehringer Ingelheim before running a California biotech startup, is suing Nocion Therapeutics, a Boston-based company with big-name investors that’s hoping to take aim at the common cough.

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Kelly says he helped develop the company’s budget and pitch deck and operated as the company’s CEO — only to be shunted aside after a few months, according to a complaint filed in Massachusetts state court in July. He’s asking for nearly $1 million and shares in the company.

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