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Liftstream Engages Boston’s Biotech Leaders in Gender Diversity
Engaging talented leaders is an issue facing the biotech industry in almost any life sciences cluster you care to look. At the executive level competition for CEOs, R&D, Finance, Medical and BD executives is fierce, but equally so at the board level, the search for talent is far-reaching. This search for talent is acutely felt in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Kendall Square has become a battle ground for high caliber leaders, spilling out to companies throughout the wider Boston and Massachusetts vicinity.
Immunocore Hires Senior Members and Launches US Office
Immunocore, a biotechnology company developing novel T cell receptor (TCR) based biological drugs to treat cancer, viral infections and autoimmune disease, has appointed James Sandy as Chief Development Officer and Julian Hirst as Director of Corporate Finance. These new positions will be based in the firm’s headquarter in Oxford, UK.
F-star Deepens Scientific Leadership with CSO Hire
F-star, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel bispecific antibodies with a focus on immuno-oncology, has appointed of Dr Neil Brewis as Chief Scientific Officer.
5 Steps to Appointing More Executive Women
Author: Karl Simpson
Aegerion succumbs to investor pressure in C-suite rout
Aegerion has faced increasing investor pressure of late, with a barrage of hostilities from activist investor, Alex Denner. He won a breakthrough earlier this year when a standstill agreement was reached with the board and CEO, Marc Beer, to nominate an independent board director for his investment firm Sarissa Capital Management, installing Jorge Plutzky as the nominated independent director . Denner is a former investor with Carl Icahn, also famed for his aggressive investor activism and ability to use corporate governance to enforce change.