• Co-founder and executive chair of the board of directors of Rallybio LLC.
  • Member of the board of directors of Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.

  • President of global research and development at AstraZeneca plc., 2010-2013.
  • President and senior vice president within Research and Development, and other roles, Pfizer, Inc., 1995-2010.
  • Visiting professor at the Department of Pharmacy at King’s College, London, 1998-2006 and at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Lincoln, 1998-2014.

  • Considered independent under the Danish Corporate Governance Recommendations.
  • Member of the Board of Directors since March 2018. Most recently elected in 2024 for a term of one year.
  • Chair of the Research & Development Committee since March 2018.
  • Member of the Remuneration Committee since March 2021.

  • Global corporate leadership.
  • Healthcare and pharma industry.
  • Medicine & science.
  • Technology, data & digital.
  • Business development, M&A and external innovation sourcing.
  • Human capital management.

  • 1984: Doctorate/PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK.
  • 1979: BSc (First Class Honours) in Microbiology, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

American and British, born 1956. Male.