– USA, CA – Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXEL) today announced that accomplished biopharmaceutical executive Julie Anne Smith has been elected to the company’s Board of Directors. Ms. Smith’s appointment took effect on September 22, 2016.
Ms. Smith has nearly two decades of operational leadership experience in high growth public, private, startup, and established biopharmaceutical businesses. She currently serves as president and chief executive officer of Raptor Pharmaceuticals, a commercial-stage, global innovator in the development and commercialization of orphan disease therapies. Ms. Smith previously held key commercial and strategic leadership positions at companies including Enobia Pharma, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, and Genzyme.
“I’m delighted to welcome Julie Anne Smith to the Exelixis board of directors,” said Stelios Papadopoulos, Ph.D., an Exelixis-co-founder and chairman of the company’s board. “Her deep commercial expertise will serve Exelixis well as the company continues to execute on the launch of its latest therapy, CABOMETYX, following regulatory approval in the United States earlier this year.”
Ms. Smith joined Raptor Pharmaceuticals in 2012, beginning her tenure as executive vice president and chief operating officer before becoming the company’s president and chief executive officer in January 2015. From 2008 to 2012, she served as chief commercial officer of Enobia Pharmaceuticals prior to its acquisition by Alexion. She began her biopharmaceutical career at Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she was awarded the President’s Award for Innovation. Smith was named a “40 Under 40” Executive to Watch by the Boston Business Journal, and received the “Pinnacle Award for Emerging Executives” from the Boston Chamber of Commerce. In 2015, the San Francisco Business Times honored her as one of the “Bay Area’s Influential Women in Business.” She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biological and nutritional sciences from Cornell University.
About Exelixis
Exelixis, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXEL) is a biopharmaceutical company committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines with the potential to improve care and outcomes for people with cancer. Since its founding in 1994, three medicines discovered at Exelixis have progressed through clinical development to receive regulatory approval. Currently, Exelixis is focused on advancing cabozantinib, an inhibitor of multiple tyrosine kinases including MET, AXL and VEGF receptors, which has shown clinical anti-tumor activity in more than 20 forms of cancer and is the subject of a broad clinical development program. Two separate formulations of cabozantinib have received regulatory approval to treat certain forms of kidney and thyroid cancer and are marketed for those purposes as CABOMETYX tablets (U.S. and EU) and COMETRIQ capsules (U.S. and EU), respectively. Another Exelixis-discovered compound, COTELLIC (cobimetinib), a selective inhibitor of MEK, has been approved in major territories including the United States and European Union, and is being evaluated for further potential indications by Roche and Genentech (a member of the Roche Group) under a collaboration with Exelixis.
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