Damian Wilmot — Senior VP, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Mr. Damian W. Wilmot is the Senior Vice President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. He is responsible for leading the company's Global Compliance (the Office of Business Integrity & Ethics), Global Litigation & Enterprise Risk Management, and Quality Assurance organizations. Before taking on his current role in 2017, Mr. Wilmot was the chief litigation counsel and also served as the company's interim head of Compliance and interim head of Human Resources.His previous professional experience includes serving as the chief litigation counsel for another global pharmaceutical company and as a litigation partner with Goodwin Procter LLP. Mr. Wilmot previously was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts and worked as a judicial law clerk on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. He has served on the boards and advisory committees of numerous nonprofit, civic, and for-profit organizations, including the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Commission (by gubernatorial appointment), the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. In 2010, the Boston Business Journal recognized him as one of Boston's outstanding business leaders under the age of 40. He has also been honored as one of Boston's most influential people of color in healthcare and life sciences. Mr. Wilmot served as a Partner of Goodwin Procter LLP's Litigation Department. Mr. Wilmot concentrates his practice on general commercial litigation, white collar criminal defense, and governmental and internal investigations. He also represents employers in all phases of employment-related litigation. Mr. Wilmot joined Goodwin Procter in 2006. In 2009, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appointed Mr. Wilmot to the Judicial Nominating Commission, which recommends judicial appointments at all levels throughout the Commonwealth. Mr. Wilmot is also the President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association, and holds director positions with Suffolk University Law School Alumni Association, the Leadership Development Foundation (also treasurer) and the Boston Center for Community and Justice. He serves on the Grant Review Committee for the Massachusetts Bar Foundation; the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office Diversity Committee; the Public Policy Sub-Committee for the Criminal Section Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association; the White Collar Crime Section Steering Committee of the ABA; and the Boston Bar Journal Board of Editors. Previously, Mr. Wilmot served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Dorchester, Massachusetts YMCA; a Governing Board Member of the Disability Law Center; and as the President of the Trinity College Black Alumni Organization. Before joining Goodwin Procter, Mr. Wilmot was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. As an AUSA, he represented the federal government in civil and criminal actions and investigations brought to enforce federal regulatory requirements and to recover damages against companies or individuals (e.g., independent clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospitals, ambulance service providers, doctors, and other medical providers) who submitted false claims to or committed fraud against the government.Mr. Wilmot also represented the federal government and its agencies in all phases of litigation in the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals in various civil suits brought against the government, including employment discrimination and wrongful discharge litigation, suits asserted under the Federal Tort Claims Act, challenges to agency actions under the Administrative Procedure Act, and the defense of government officials sued in their individual capacities. Prior to serving as an AUSA, he was an associate with Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Boston. Before that, Mr. Wilmot clerked for Justice Christine Vertefeuille on the State of Connecticut Supreme Court. Mr. Wilmot is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and before the U.S. District Court for the Districts of Massachusetts and Connecticut. In 2010, Mr. Wilmot was selected by the Boston Business Journal as one of the top 40 business leaders in Massachusetts under the age of 40. He is also the recipient of the 2005 Outstanding BLSA Alumnus Award from the Black Law Student Association, Suffolk University Law School Chapter. While in law school, Mr. Wilmot received the Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership Ability from the Massachusetts Black Judges Conference, and was a staff member and Productions Editor of the Suffolk Transnational Law Review. He holds J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law in 2000 and B.A. in 1997 from Trinity College.