XENON PHARMACEUTICALS INC (XENE)
Sector: Health Care
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Health Care
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Director information for XENE
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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| XENE | Director | 62 | ["Co-founded and served as CFO and Chief Business Officer at Medivation, Inc.","Led the company through substantial growth and challenges during clinical development and launch of XTANDI®","Served on boards of various biotechnology companies","Experience with ProDuct Health, Inc. as Senior Vice President and General Counsel","Worked for Morrison & Foerster LLP and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court","Received J.D. from Harvard Law School and degrees in Economics and German from Santa Clara University"] | [] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Mr. Machado has served as a member of our Board since November 2020. Mr. Machado co-founded and served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer at Medivation, Inc. until his retirement in 2014 and served as a member of Medivation s board of directors from 2014 until its acquisition for approximately $14 billion by Pfizer in 2016. During his tenure at Medivation, Mr. Machado helped lead the company through substantial growth and challenges, providing strong leadership during the clinical development and successful commercial launch of XTANDI . Mr. Machado serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of Alumis, Inc. and Arcus Biosciences, Inc. Mr. Machado previously served on the Boards of the publicly traded biotechnology companies Principia Biogpharma Inc., Roivant Sciences Ltd., Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc., Turnstone Biologics Corp., Chimerix, Inc., Acelyrin, Inc., and Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier in his career, from 1998 to 2001, Mr. Machado worked with ProDuct Health, Inc., a medical device company as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and earlier as General Counsel. He served as a consultant to Cytyc Corporation to assist with transitional matters from 2001 to 2002. Mr. Machado worked for Morrison & Foerster LLP, a leading international law firm, and for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Mr. Machado received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and holds both a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from Santa Clara University in California. Our Board believes that Mr. Machado is qualified to serve as a director because of his senior management experience and his service on public and private company boards in the pharmaceutical industry.