Paul G Higham, Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned healthcare industry expert with extensive leadership experience in both large pharmaceutical and biotech companies. He has over 15 years C-Suite Biotech company experience. During the last 10 years he has been CEO of two immuno-oncology development-stage companies. In more detail:
He was Chief Executive Officer of Glycotope GmbH a glycobiology company focussing on immuno-therapeutics in oncology from 2016 to 2017 and before that CEO at Immatics Biotechnologies from 2008 to 2015. Through his leadership at Immatics, the company developed a number of peptide-based immunotherapies and has become one of the leading T-cell focused cancer immunotherapy companies. Previously, he served as Director Commercial Development at Ark Therapeutics Group plc where he was responsible for commercial strategy and all business development activities. In addition, he was in charge of establishing the operations and adenovirus gene-based medicine production facilities of Ark Therapeutics in Finland (Kuopio). Before joining Ark Therapeutics in 2001, Paul G Higham worked as International Commercial Vice President for GI, Metabolic and Pain at GlaxoWellcome plc/GSK, where he was responsible for all aspects of international commercial strategy. Prior to that he held various sales and marketing positions with increasing responsibilities with Bayer AG becoming General Manager of Bayer Pharmaceuticals for Sweden and Denmark. He holds an honours degree in Applied Biology.
