Mike brings nearly twenty-five years of experience in pharma and biotech strategy and licensing. Most recently, Mike served as SVP of Corporate Development for Precision BioSciences, where he led transactions worth more than $2 billion, including a CAR-T co-development and co-promotion partnership with Baxalta that won the 2016 LES Deal of Distinction award, and in vivo gene editing collaborations with Gilead and The University of Pennsylvania’s Gene Therapy Program. Previously, Mike worked at GlaxoSmithKline in R&D Strategy and Portfolio Management, supporting portfolio analysis, business development, innovations in clinical trial design, evaluation and adoption of digital transformation initiatives, and optimization of global IP filings. Mike has worked with a wide range of start-up, small, medium, and large therapeutics companies, both private and public, and was a co-founder of Cempra Pharmaceuticals. Mike holds an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, an M.P.P. from Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, and a B.S. in biology from the the Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Science.