Senior Management Team
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John F. Crowley President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Crowley became president and CEO of Amicus in January 2005, having served as a director since 2004. Previously he was founding president and CEO of Orexigen Therapeutics. Preceding Orexigen, Mr. Crowley was senior vice president at Genzyme Therapeutics, a position he assumed after overseeing the sale of Novazyme Pharmaceuticals to Genzyme in September 2001. Mr. Crowley was the founding president and CEO of Novazyme that was developing a novel treatment for Pompe disease. He previously served in several senior management roles with the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), including director of the Executive Committee for the U.S. Medicines Group, director of Business Strategy for the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group, and director of U.S. Area Marketing for the Neuroscience and Infectious Disease Division. Preceding his experience at BMS, Mr. Crowley worked as a business strategy consultant for Marakon Associates. Mr. Crowley began his professional career as a litigation associate in the Health Care Practice Group of the Indianapolis-based law firm of Bingham, Summers, Welsh & Spilman. | |
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Donald J. Hayden , Jr. Chairman From 1981-2006, Mr. Hayden had a highly-successful 25 year career in pharmaceuticals and related health care businesses with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Since March of 2006, Mr. Hayden has held key leadership roles at several venture-stage pharmaceutical and biotech companies. | |
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Matthew R. Patterson Chief Operating Officer Mr. Patterson joined Amicus in December 2004 and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Patterson was promoted to Chief Operating Officer from Chief Business Officer in September 2006. Prior to Amicus, Mr. Patterson served as vice president of Regulatory Affairs, and later vice president of Commercial Planning at BioMarin Pharmaceutical. Mr. Patterson oversaw the development of Aldurazyme® (laronidase) for the treatment of the genetic disease MPS I and helped build the sales and marketing function for the company. Prior to BioMarin, Mr. Patterson worked at Genzyme Corporation in Manufacturing and Regulatory Affairs. While at Genzyme he contributed to the development and global licensing of multiple products. | |
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James E. Dentzer Chief Financial Officer Mr. Dentzer joined Amicus in September 2006 as Chief Financial Officer. He joined the company from Biogen Idec Inc. where he served as Corporate Controller from November 2003 to September 2006. Prior to the November 2003 merger of Biogen, Inc. and IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Mr. Dentzer served as Corporate Controller of Biogen, Inc. Prior to Biogen, he served in a variety of financial positions at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of DuPont Flooring Systems. | |
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David J. Lockhart , Ph.D. Chief Scientific Officer Dr. David Lockhart joined Amicus Therapeutics in January 2006 as chief scientific officer. He brings to Amicus 13 years of industry experience and achievements including credit as the primary developer of genome-wide gene-expression profiling with high-density DNA arrays when he was at Affymetrix. | |
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David Palling , Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Drug Development Dr. Palling brings more than 20 years of drug development experience to Amicus and has served as senior vice president of Drug Development since the company began operations in August 2002. He has responsibility for preclinical development and manufacturing. Previously, he was vice president of Worldwide Assay Research and Development at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson Company, and prior to that he served as senior director of Pharmaceutical Development at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development. | |
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Gregory P. Licholai , M.D. Vice President, Medical Affairs Dr. Licholai brings his experience in financing medical innovation, in clinical practice and in scientific research to his position overseeing Medical Affairs at Amicus. Prior to joining Amicus in 2004, he was a venture capitalist at Domain Associates, where he helped fund biotechnology and medical device start-up companies. Previously he was director of Ventures and Business Development for Medtronic Neurological, where he managed a global portfolio of novel drug delivery and neurological treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, CNS malignancies and chronic pain syndromes. | |
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S. Nicole Schaeffer Vice President, Human Resources & Leadership Development Nicole Schaeffer has overseen Human Resources and Leadership Development at Amicus since March 2005. She brings over eight years of experience building talent at early stage biotechnology companies. Prior to joining Amicus, Ms. Schaeffer worked at Flagship Ventures helping to start several high-tech/biotech companies including Adnexus Therapeutics, Epitome Biosystems and BG Medicine. | |
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Bradley L Campbell Vice President, Business Planning Mr. Campbell joined Amicus in May 2006 as Senior Director of Business Development and became Vice President of Business Planning in April 2007. Prior to Amicus, Mr. Campbell served as director of Genzyme Cardiovascular, responsible for business strategy and development, commercial planning and alliance management for cardiac gene therapy programs. Previously, he was the Sr. Product Manager for Myozyme®, Genzyme's enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease. Mr. Campbell has also served in sales & marketing for Bristol-Myers Squibb, and as a business strategy consultant for Marakon Associates. Mr. Campbell is currently serving as the president of the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association. | |
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John Kirk Vice President, Regulatory Affairs John Kirk joined Amicus Therapeutics in January 2008 as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs. John brings over 20 years of experience in Regulatory Affairs and has a proven track record in large scale, international regulatory issues and product approvals. Mr. Kirk was most recently Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs at Aegerion Pharmaceuticals and Director, Worldwide Regulatory Affairs at Pfizer Global Research & Development. In these positions John played a key role in several programs in the cardiovascular and inflammation therapeutic areas. Prior to Pfizer, John served as Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs at Esperion Therapeutics. Esperion was developing late stage compounds designed to mimic or enhance the reverse cholesterol transport function of HDL when it was acquired by Pfizer in 2003. At Esperion, John played a key role in the development and execution of regulatory strategies for these important developmental compounds. He brings significant expertise in several cardiovascular and metabolic related areas and has proven ability to contribute to the growth of early stage pharmaceutical companies as well as understanding U.S. and international regulatory processes required to create global registration strategies. | |
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Andrew Shenker , M.D., Ph.D. Vice President, Clinical Research Andrew Shenker has served as Vice President of Clinical Research at Amicus since December 2007. Dr. Shenker is a physician scientist with a successful research career in pharmacology and molecular endocrinology and over 10 years of leadership experience in both academic and industry settings. From 2002 to 2007, Dr. Shenker was with Bristol-Myers Squibb where he served most recently as Medical Director in the Clinical Discovery group and led a team responsible for early clinical development and biomarker strategy for a novel antithrombotic drug. From 1995 to 2002, Dr. Shenker was Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry at Northwestern University Medical School. Dr. Shenker has authored numerous publications on the role of gene mutations in G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathways in human disease. | |













