Company: GLPG
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001558370-25-003806
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Company: GALAPAGOS NV
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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 Guenter is a Non-Executive Independent member of our Board of Directors since April 30, 2019. Mr. Guenter is a member of the Executive Board of Merck and Chief Executive Officer of Merck Healthcare since January 2021. Before joining Merck, he served as Chief Executive Officer at Almirall from 2017 to 2020. Prior to joining Almirall, he worked at Sanofi for 22 years, most recently as Executive Vice President Diabetes and Cardiovascular Global Business Unit. During his tenure at Sanofi, he held many senior positions including Vice President Eastern Europe and Northern Europe, Vice President Business Management and Support, General Manager Germany, Senior Vice President Europe, Executive Vice President Global Commercial Operations, and Executive Vice President General Medicine and Emerging Markets. He was a member of Sanofi’s Executive Committee from 2013 until August 2017. Before joining Sanofi, he held different positions in sales and marketing at Smith Kline and Ciba Geigy. Mr. Guenter also is a member of the Board of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). He holds a Master’s Degree in Physical Education from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Ghent.
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Linda Higgins is a Non-Executive member of our Board of Directors since October 22, 2019. Linda Slanec Higgins, PhD, joined Gilead Sciences, Inc. in 2010 and is currently Sr. Vice President Research Strategy, Innovation & Portfolio. In her first ten years at Gilead, she led the Biology division, significantly expanding the therapeutic area scope and capabilities of the department. She founded External Innovation as integral component for Research. She previously served as President & Chief Executive Officer of InteKrin Therapeutics, and as Head of Research at Scios, a Johnson & Johnson company, where she provided leadership for drug discovery, preclinical development and translational medicine. Dr. Higgins is passionate about biopharmaceutical discovery and development, and has been dedicated to excellence in applied scientific research since 1991. She has led projects and departments in multiple therapeutic areas including central nervous system, fibrosis, inflammation, cardiovascular, virology and oncology. Dr. Higgins built many of these as new areas at Scios and Gilead. Dr. Higgins earned an A.B. in Behavioral Physiology from Kenyon College, a Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and completed Post-