Michael LaCascia — Senior Vice President and Secretary at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Mr. Michael J. LaCascia serves as Senior Vice President at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated and also serves as its Secretary. Mr. LaCascia served as Vice President at Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Mr. LaCascia served as Interim General Counsel of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Mr. LaCascia served as a Senior Partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He was the Senior Partner and Vice Chairman of Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Hale and Dorr LLP. His practice primarily involves mergers and acquisitions of both publicly traded and private companies, advising financial advisors in connection with mergers and acquisition activities, public offerings of securities (as both issuer's and underwriter's counsel), venture capital work and general corporate work for ongoing clients. He has represented buyers and sellers in public and private transactions. Mr. LaCascia received a J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor of The Annual Review of Banking Law. He received an A.B. degree, cum laude, from Harvard College. He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.