Sarah Boyce — Chief Business Officer at Ionis Pharmaceuticals

Ms. Sarah Boyce has been Chief Business Officer of Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since January 2015. Ms. Boyce provides strategic leadership from a commercial background and lead Isis' corporate development activities, including corporate communications, business development, patient advocacy, competitive intelligence and alliance management. Ms. Boyce served as vice president, head of international business strategy and operations at Forest Laboratories, Inc. where she was recruited to lead the launch, development and expansion of their international efforts for their pharmaceutical and consumer health business. Prior to Forest, Ms. Boyce served on the Alexion management team and led the global launch of a new therapy area for the company. Ms. Boyce served as Vice President of Global Nephrology Franchise at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She was responsible for establishing this therapeutic area of Alexion worldwide, as well as for supporting regional and country businesses to achieve and exceed their patient-centered objectives for aHUS along with other renal disorders. Prior to joining Alexion in 2010, Ms. Boyce held positions of increasing responsibility at Novartis over the course of ten years. She was Vice President and Global Program Head Pediatric & Specialty Vaccines business leading a broad cross functional team. Prior to joining the vaccines division, she worked in Novartis oncology division in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand. She served as the Business Unit Head of Australia and New Zealand holding responsibility and accountability for the P+L. Prior to her tenure at Novartis, she worked at Bayer Pharmaceuticals as global strategic marketing manager and at Roche, where she led the launches of multiple drugs in the UK. During her tenure in the U.S , she led the teams responsible for Gleevec, the launch of Tasigna and the CML alliance. Most notably, she was honored with the rising star award in 2007 from the prestigious Health Care Business Woman's Association. Over the course of her 17-year career, she has been responsible for launching more than a half-dozen products in global, regional and country roles as well as leading the launch of many new indications for existing products. Ms. Boyce began her career as a GP sales representative with Merck and progressed through to hospital sales, sales management, market analysis and marketing general management. Ms. Boyce received a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology from Manchester University, England.