Senior Advisor
Bob is a Senior Advisor on the Frazier Life Sciences team and a seasoned pharmaceutical executive with vast business and product management experience.
Bob joined Frazier in January 2016 and is currently Chief Executive Officer of Cirius Therapeutics, where he serves on the board of directors. He also serves on the board of Inipharm. He also served as Chairman of the board for Mavupharma until its acquisition by AbbVie and served on the boards of Frazier Lifesciences Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: FLAC) and Imago BioSciences (acquired by Merck).
Before joining Frazier, Bob was Chief Executive Officer of Amira Pharmaceuticals until its sale to Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2011 for $475 million. In this capacity, he was instrumental in focusing Amira's development efforts, strengthening its pipeline and forging key collaborations with partners such as GlaxoSmithKline. Previously, he held a number of senior management positions over 17 years at Amgen.
Bob currently serves on the board of directors for several companies, and has held multiple board seats in the past.
Bob earned his M.B.A. from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles; and a B.S. in microbiology and an M.S. in genetics from The Pennsylvania State University.
University of California, Los Angeles (M.B.A.)
Pennsylvania State University (M.S., B.S.)
