Vice President, Global Strategic Marketing and Development

Paul W. Finnegan, M.D., M.B.A. has been Vice President, Global Strategic Marketing and Development since August 2006 and is responsible for global marketing, commercial development and partnerships, distribution, reimbursement and policy, business analytics, pharmacoeconomics, and professional and advocacy communications and relations. In addition, he is responsible for building Alexion subsidiaries in country markets outside of the U.S. and Europe. From July 2006 to February 2002, Dr. Finnegan was responsible for worldwide marketing and sales, business development, external relations, distribution, pricing and reimbursement, pharmaco-economics, strategic planning and corporate development. He joined Alexion in April 2001 as Executive Director of Commercial Operations. From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Finnegan was Senior Director, Global Medical Marketing at Pharmacia Corporation, formerly Searle. He joined Searle, a Monsanto company, as Director, Global Medical Marketing in 1998. At Searle, he was responsible for various pre-launch and launch initiatives in Japan, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Canada for all therapeutic areas as well as contributing to the scale up of international operations and partnership management. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Finnegan was Director and Partner of Toronto East General & Orthopedic Radiology Associates, LLC. Dr. Finnegan earned his M.B.A. with Honors, in Finance and Strategy, from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. He also holds the degrees of M.D., C.M. from McGill University in Montreal and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Canada.