Management
George A. Scangos, Ph.D.,
has served as a director and as Exelixis’ President and Chief Executive Officer since October 1996. From September 1993 to October 1996, Dr. Scangos served as President of Biotechnology at Bayer Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, and was responsible for research, business and process development, manufacturing, engineering and quality assurance. Dr. Scangos is Chairman of the board of directors of Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and a member of the board of directors of Entelos, Inc. and of our former subsidiary, TaconicArtemis GmbH (previously known as Artemis Pharmaceuticals GmbH). Dr. Scangos also serves as the Chair of the California Healthcare Institute (CHI), a member of the Board of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development and as a director of Fondation Santé. Dr. Scangos is also a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy and the Board of Overseers of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Scangos was a Jane Coffin Childs Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University and a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Scangos currently holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Scangos holds a B.A. in Biology from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts.
Michael M. Morrissey, Ph.D.,
has served as President of Research and Development since January 2007. From January 2006 until December 2006, Dr. Morrissey served as Executive Vice President, Discovery. From January 2003 to December 2005, Dr. Morrissey served as Senior Vice President, Discovery. Previously, he served as Vice President of Discovery Research from February 2000 through December 2002. From 1991 to 2000, Dr. Morrissey held several positions at Berlex Biosciences, last holding the position of Vice President, Discovery Research. From 1986 to 1991, he served as a Senior Scientist and Project Team Leader in Medicinal Chemistry at CIBA-Geigy Corporation, a pharmaceutical company. He is the author of numerous scientific publications in medicinal chemistry and drug discovery and an inventor on 70 issued U.S. patents and 25 additional published U.S. patent applications. Dr. Morrissey holds a B.S. (Honors) in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University.
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Frances K. Heller, J.D.,
has served as Executive Vice President, Business Development since August 2008. From December 2003 until she joined Exelixis, Ms. Heller was head of Strategic Alliances at Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), the global research organization for Novartis AG. Prior to NIBR, from 2001 to 2003, Ms. Heller served as Vice President of Corporate Development & Legal Affairs at Signature BioScience, Inc., an oncology drug discovery company, where she oversaw all business development and legal activities. Prior to Signature Bioscience, from 1998 to 2001 Ms. Heller held positions of increasing responsibility at Celera Genomics, most recently serving as Corporate and Intellectual Property Counsel and head of the legal department with responsibility for corporate and business transactions and gene discovery collaborations. Ms. Heller is a member of the California State Bar and is licensed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She received her J.D. degree from the Golden Gate University School of Law, her M.A. in biology from American University, and her B.S. in biology from Tulane University.
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Frank L. Karbe
has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since July 2007. From February 2004 to July 2007, Mr. Karbe served as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. From 1997 to January 2004, Mr. Karbe worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs & Co., where he served most recently as Vice President in the healthcare group focusing on corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions in the biotechnology industry. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Karbe held various positions in the finance department of The Royal Dutch/Shell Group in Europe. Mr. Karbe holds a Diplom Kaufmann from the WHU—Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, Koblenz, Germany (equivalent to a U.S. Masters of Business Administration).
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Peter Lamb, Ph.D.,
has served as Executive Vice President, Discovery Research and Chief Scientific Officer since September 2009. Dr. Lamb previously served in numerous other positions since joining Exelixis in October 2000, including as Senior Director, Molecular Pharmacology and Structural Biology from October 2000 until December 2003, Vice President, Discovery Pharmacology from December 2003 until January 2007 and Senior Vice President, Discovery Research and Chief Scientific Officer from January 2007 until August 2009. From June 1992 until September 2000, Dr. Lamb held positions of increasing responsibility at Ligand Pharmaceuticals, most recently serving as Director of Transcription Research. Dr. Lamb has held post-doctoral research fellowships at the Carnegie Institution, Department of Embryology, with Dr. S.L. McKnight and the University of Oxford with Dr. N.J. Proudfoot, working in the field of gene regulation. Dr. Lamb has authored numerous articles in the fields of gene expression, signal transduction and oncology, and is an author on multiple issued and pending U.S. patents. Dr. Lamb has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the ICRF/University of London and a B.A. in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge.
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Lupe M. Rivera, SPHR, CCP
has served as Executive Vice President, Operations since January 2010. Ms. Rivera previously served as Senior Vice President, Operations from July 2007 to January 2010. Ms. Rivera served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Communications from January 2007 through June 2007. Ms. Rivera served as Vice President, Human Resources from July 2004 through December 2006, and she served as Exelixis’ Human Resources Director from January 2002 through June 2004. She joined Exelixis in 2002 from AT&T’s Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) unit where she held the position of District Manager, Human Resources. Prior to joining AT&T, she was Director, Human Resources for NorthPoint Communications, and prior to that she held various positions with Deltanet, an information technology company. Ms. Rivera also spent twelve years in banking with Valley National Bank of Arizona, Bank One, Arizona and Bank One, Utah. Ms. Rivera holds a Masters Degree in Human Resources & Organization Development from University of San Francisco. Ms. Rivera is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) by the Human Resource Certification Institute and a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) from World at Work (formerly known as the American Compensation Association).
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Gisela M. Schwab, M.D.,
has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer since January 2008. She joined Exelixis in 2006 as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. From 2002 to 2006, she held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Abgenix, Inc., a human antibody-based drug development company. She also served as vice president, clinical development, at Abgenix from 1999 to 2001. Prior to working at Abgenix, from 1992 to 1999, she held positions of increasing responsibility at Amgen Inc., most recently as Director of Clinical Research and Hematology/Oncology Therapeutic Area Team Leader. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Heidelberg, trained at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the National Cancer Institute and is board certified in internal medicine and hematology and oncology.
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Pamela A. Simonton, J.D., LL.M.,
has served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel since January 2008. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President, Patents and Licensing from January 2004 until December 2007. In addition, she served as Vice President of Corporate Technology Development from April 2000 through December 2003. From July 1996 to April 2000, Ms. Simonton served as Vice President, Licensing and Acquisitions for Bayer Corporation’s Pharmaceutical Division. From September 1994 to July 1996, Ms. Simonton served as Vice President of Patents and Licensing for Bayer’s Pharmaceutical Division, North America. Ms. Simonton is admitted to practice in California (RIHC), the District of Columbia and Florida and before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Simonton holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Barry College, an M.S. in Physics from the University of Miami, a J.D. from Nova University and an LL.M. in Patent and Trade Regulation from George Washington University.
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