Nadir Mahmood, Ph.D, Board Chair
President, Nkarta
Officers
Joy Russell, Vice-Chair
Vice President External Affairs, Genentech
Alice Valder Curran, Secretary
Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP
Katie Wechsler, Treasurer
Audit Partner, Life Sciences, KPMG
Melinda Richter, Chair Emerita
Members
Matt C. Abernethy
Chief Financial Officer, Neurocrine Biosciences
Nicole Anderson, JD, MBA
Vice President and Executive Vice Dean, Academic Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Robert Anderson
Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim
Vasiliki Anest, Ph.D.
Chief Innovation Officer, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCCC)
Debra Barrett
Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Anindita Basu
Managing Director, Life Sciences & Strategy, Deloitte
Monica Beam, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Scott Bohn
Chief Development Officer & Head of Lab, Healthpeak Properties
Badia Boudaiffa
Vice President, North America Commercial Operations Diabetes Care, Abbott
Jane Chung, R.Ph.D
Chief Executive Officer & Board of Directors Member, Sutro Biopharma, Inc.
Fred Dorey
Special Counsel, Cooley, LLP
Jeff Farrow
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Strategy Officer, Tarsus
Bryan Giraudo
Chief Financial Officer, Gossamer Bio
Kevin Grimes, MD, MBA
Professor of Chemical & Systems Biology, Co-Director of SPARK Program, Stanford University
Jane Grogan, Ph.D.
Head of Research, Biogen
Babak Haghiri
VP of Operations, Site Head – Los Angeles, Takeda
Megan Hall
Vice President of Medical Affairs, GRAIL
Erik Harris
Chief Commercial Officer and Executive Vice President, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.
Wa’el Hashad
CEO, Longeveron
Ana Hooker
Senior Vice President & Chief Laboratory Officer, Exact Sciences
Sarah Huoh
Corporate Vice President, Public Affairs, Edwards Lifesciences
Jeff Jonker
CEO, Belharra Therapeutics
Jeff Landau
Sonal Matai
President & Managing Director, Karl Storz Endoscopy
Caryn McDowell
Founding Limited Partner, How Women Invest
Grace Han McMahon
Associate Vice President and Head, Pacific Hub, BD&L, Merck
Ramlah Nehring, Ph.D.
Vice President and Head of Diagnostics Partnering, Strategy and Transactions, Roche Diagnostics
Katie Peng
Chief Commercial Officer, Denali Therapeutics
Christoph Pittius, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Research Business Development, City of Hope
Greg Portner
Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs & Policy, Amgen
Ammar Qadan
Global Senior Vice President of Government Affairs & Market Access, Cepheid
Ganesh Raman, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, California State University
Rich Ramko
Assurance Partner, US Biotech Leader, West Coast Life Sciences Leader, Ernst & Young
Robin Roberts
Co-Founder / CEO & Chairman, DatosX Digital Health Labs
Mark Roeder
Partner and Former Global Co-Chair, Life Sciences Industry Group, Latham & Watkins LLP
Jennifer Ruddock
SVP & Chief Business Officer, Nektar Therapeutics
George Savage, M.D.
President, Windmill Partners LLC
Aziz Sawaf
Chief Financial Officer & SVP of Operations Strategy, Theravance Biopharma
India Peterson Valentine
Vice President, State Government Affairs, Gilead Sciences
Julie Visser
Managing Director, Executive Search, ZRG Partners
Carolyn Tang
General Counsel, Arcus Biosciences
Bridget Walsh
Alberto Zacarias
Head of Strategic Management, AbbVie
Alice Zhang
CEO & Founder, Verge Genomics