Lorraine S - VP Marketing, Geron Corporation
Hired - October 2022
10/20/2022 - FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) reported that it has granted non-statutory stock options to purchase an aggregate of 843,260 shares of Geron common stock as inducements to newly hired employees in connection with commencement of employment with the Company. Lorraine S is one of these newly hired employees.
Lorraine's former employers include: Novartis, Bristol Meyers Squibb, JNJ and Shering-Plough
Lorraine is coming to Geron directly from Novartis where her last position was as Executive Director Sickle Cell Disease US Marketing. She was also Director, Oncology Global Marketing, Director Rare Disease US Marketing, Director Lung Franchise Launch Lead - Oncology US Marketing and Area Sales Manager - Oncology during her 8.5 year tenure at Novartis.
At Bristol Meyers Squibb her titles included: Associate Director, Immuno-oncology Global Market Access,; Associate Director, Oncology Global Commercialization and Product Manager, Oncology US Marketing. Lorraine was with BMS for almost 7yrs.
At JNJ, Lorraine was Associate Product Manager, Oncology US Marketing.
*Geron's current employee roster as of now comprises approximately 20 - 25% former Janssen and JNJ employees. All of these recent hires, since the JNJ Discontinuation are Top-tier candidates who could work anywhere they choose. They have chosen to come to Geron. -Kmall
New VP Marketing.......yet another former JNJ employee
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New VP Marketing.......yet another former JNJ employee
Last edited by kmall on Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:06 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: New VP Marketing.......yet another former JNJ employee
Known current Geron Employees as of 11/21/2022 and their initial hiring dates –
* Former Janssen employee
+ Part-time or Consultant
Management:
1 - CEO – Dr. John A. Scarlett, MD - 2011
2 - CFO – Olivia K. Bloom - 1994
3 - CAO – Melissa A. Kelly Behrs – 1998
4 - CBO – Edward Koval - 2021
5 - COO – Andrew J. Grethlein - 2012
6 - CCO* – Anil Kapur - 2019
7 - CMO* – Faye Feller, MD - 2019
8 - CLO – Stephen N. Rosenfield - 2011
Clinical – Operations, Science, Development:
Faye Feller*(7), MD – CMO – 2019
9 - Laurie Sherman* – VP Clinical Operations – 2019
10 - Souria Dougherty* - Ex Director Clinical Science - 2019
11 - Tymara Berry – Ex Director Clinical Development - 2020
12 - Dr. Vivian Rodolf - Medical Director - 2022
13 - Sheetal Shah – Sr Director – 2020
14 - Denise Redding – Director - 2021
15 - Jeff Ryel – Director Clinical Operations - 2020
16 - Brandie Jonas – Sr Director, Clinical Program Management – 2019
17 - F Matthew Bakthasekaran - Sr Manger, Clinical Program Management - 2022
18 - Judy Ho - Sr Manager - 2022
19 - Natasha M - Associate Director, Clinical Research - 2021
20 - Manoj Jivani - Director Clinical Operations - 2022
21 - Kate Turner - Associate Director Clinical Operations - 2022
22 - Jennifer Riggs* - Associate Director Clinical Science - 2022
23 – Carolina Jacobs – Sr Project Manager - 2012
24 - Daria Zielinska – Sr Scientist – 2001
25 - Ron Pruzan – Principal Scientist – 2010
26 – Yelena Polonskaya – Sr Research Associate - 2001
27 - Barbara Mandelkow (Germany) Lab Assistant - 2017
28 - Janet Ahern(+) - Clinical Research Consultant - 2022
29 - Dr. Aleksandra Rizo*(+) - Sr. Medical and Regulatory Advisor - 2019
(currently employed at Vividion and Geron)
30 - Mebratu Gebreyesus(+) - Sr Development Associate - 2010
(currently employed at Bayer, Celltheon and Geron)
31 - Kerry Mundt(+) – CT Assistant – 2010
(currently employed by Pharmacyclics/Abbvie and Geron)
Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety/Information:
32 - Patti N. – Ex Director Drug Safety – 2020
33 - Annat Ikin - Director Medical Writing – 2021
Business Development:
Melissa A. Kelly Behrs (3) – Chief Alliance Officer – 2014
Edward Koval (4) – CBO - 2021
Anil Kapur* (6) - COO - 2019
34 - Jason Grossman - Ex Director, Commercial Operations - 2022
35 - Nishan Sengupta - VP, Market-Access, Pricing, Evidence Strategy - 2021
36 - Scott Hutson - VP Sales - 2022
37 - Denise Meyer – VP Medical Affairs – 2021
38 - Lorraine S - VP Marketing - 2022
39 - Christopher Cornell - Sr. Field Medical Liaison - 2022
40 - Helen Lee – Sr. Reporting Analyst - 2012
41 - Anthony Kuczynski – Analyst - 2019
42 - Aron Feingold - VP Investor Relations & Corporate Communication - 2022
Finance:
Olivia K. Bloom (2) – CFO – 1994
43 - Karen Boyce – VP -2008
44 - Andrew Good – Ex Director – 2006
45 - Gilian Fong – Director – 2021
46 – Iasko Cable – Sr. Clinical Trial Accountant – 2019
47 – Dave Clark – CPA, Corporate Controller - 2022
48 - Katherine Harmon, CPA, Assistant Controller - 2022
Data Management:
49 - Ben Thorp - Head of Clinical Data Management - 2022
50 - Sarfraz Haroon - Associate Director, Clinical Data Management - 2022
51 - Rana F.* – Director, Statistical Programming - 2020
52 - Sridevi Sridhar, CCDM – Associate Director – 2021
53 - Aswin Jayaraman - Director, IT Applications - 2022
Manufacturing:
54 - Patrick Murphy – VP Manufacturing – 2019
55 - Eric Mueller – Director – 2019
56 - Leslie C. – CMC Director - 2021
57 - Bharat Baral* – CMC Manager – 2021 & 2011
58 - William Garzon-Rodriguez* - Associate Director Drug Product Manufacturing – 2021
59 - Tim Tickner – Director, Supply Chain Management – 2022
Regulatory:
60 - Sharon McBain* - VP Global - 2019
61 - Shirin Mirshamsi* – Director EU – 2019
62 - Ilesh Sanathra* - Director Global – 2020
63 - Nick Lyon – Director – 2020
64 – Ronan Balicanta* Senior Manager, Submissions - 2022
65 - Tarin Araujo - Senior Manager US - 2022
66 - Joyce Reader - Sr Regulatory Consultant (+) - 2022
Biostatistics:
67 - Ying Wan* – VP - 2019
68 - Libo Sun* – Director - 2019
Quality Assurance and Quality Control:
69 - Denise Grippo – VP Quality and Compliance – 2019
70 - Samantha Taylor – QA Manager, Document Control – 2007
71 - Joe Denton – Director – 2019
72 - Damanjit Singh – Sr Manager – 2018
73 - Willie Mobley – Materials/Document Specialist - 2007
74 - Leah Wood – Manager – 2021
75 - Murugappa Vedachalam (+) – QA/QC/CMC Consultant - 2019
Legal and Intellectual Property:
Stephen L. Rosenfield (8) – CLO – 2011
76 - Pamela Smith – Associate General Counsel - 1999
77 - Christopher Johnson – Director - 2019
78 - Laura Reederson – Director - 2020
79 - Leslie Mooi – VP IP – 2007
80 - Abby B. – Sr Patent Paralegal - 2014
81 - Cheryl Northern – Sr. Contracts Manager – 2007
82 – Brittney Hernandez – Contracts Manager – 2021
Facilities Operations and Information Technology:
83 - Michael Yamada – VP -2007
84 - Jyoti Shetty – Sr Director IT – 2021
85 - John Albert - Director Information Technology Infrastructure - 2022
86 - Tim W - Associate Director, IT Business Systems - 2022
87 - Miguel Hundelt – Systems Administrator – 2018
88 – Julian Cornejo - Systems Administrator - 2021
89 - Briana Martinez – Ex Assistant - 2006
90 - Julia Mensing – Ex Assistant – 2011
91 - Stacie W. – Ex Assistant - 2020
92 - Mia Pham – Office Manager - 2020
Human Resources:
93 - Shannon Odam – HR Executive -2019
94 - Stephanie Dellari – Director - 2004
95 - Susan Finan – Employee Benefits – 2021
96 - Marisa Cerniglia - Manager, People Operations – 2021
97 – Jennifer Allen - Associate Director, Talent Acquisition – 2022
98 – Fiona McAuliffe – Talent Acquisition Associate - 2022
**This latest "known" Geron employee roster reflects the most recent additions of:
36 - Scott Hutson - VP Sales
38 - Lorraine S - VP MMarketing
50 - Sarfraz Haroon - Associate Director, Clinical Data Management
53 - Aswin Jayaraman - Director, IT Applications
66 - Joyce Reader - Senior Regulatory Consultant (+)
As of Feb 2022 - Karie Arnold – Director Clinical Operations (2021) - is no longer an employee at Geron. -Kmall
* Former Janssen employee
+ Part-time or Consultant
Management:
1 - CEO – Dr. John A. Scarlett, MD - 2011
2 - CFO – Olivia K. Bloom - 1994
3 - CAO – Melissa A. Kelly Behrs – 1998
4 - CBO – Edward Koval - 2021
5 - COO – Andrew J. Grethlein - 2012
6 - CCO* – Anil Kapur - 2019
7 - CMO* – Faye Feller, MD - 2019
8 - CLO – Stephen N. Rosenfield - 2011
Clinical – Operations, Science, Development:
Faye Feller*(7), MD – CMO – 2019
9 - Laurie Sherman* – VP Clinical Operations – 2019
10 - Souria Dougherty* - Ex Director Clinical Science - 2019
11 - Tymara Berry – Ex Director Clinical Development - 2020
12 - Dr. Vivian Rodolf - Medical Director - 2022
13 - Sheetal Shah – Sr Director – 2020
14 - Denise Redding – Director - 2021
15 - Jeff Ryel – Director Clinical Operations - 2020
16 - Brandie Jonas – Sr Director, Clinical Program Management – 2019
17 - F Matthew Bakthasekaran - Sr Manger, Clinical Program Management - 2022
18 - Judy Ho - Sr Manager - 2022
19 - Natasha M - Associate Director, Clinical Research - 2021
20 - Manoj Jivani - Director Clinical Operations - 2022
21 - Kate Turner - Associate Director Clinical Operations - 2022
22 - Jennifer Riggs* - Associate Director Clinical Science - 2022
23 – Carolina Jacobs – Sr Project Manager - 2012
24 - Daria Zielinska – Sr Scientist – 2001
25 - Ron Pruzan – Principal Scientist – 2010
26 – Yelena Polonskaya – Sr Research Associate - 2001
27 - Barbara Mandelkow (Germany) Lab Assistant - 2017
28 - Janet Ahern(+) - Clinical Research Consultant - 2022
29 - Dr. Aleksandra Rizo*(+) - Sr. Medical and Regulatory Advisor - 2019
(currently employed at Vividion and Geron)
30 - Mebratu Gebreyesus(+) - Sr Development Associate - 2010
(currently employed at Bayer, Celltheon and Geron)
31 - Kerry Mundt(+) – CT Assistant – 2010
(currently employed by Pharmacyclics/Abbvie and Geron)
Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety/Information:
32 - Patti N. – Ex Director Drug Safety – 2020
33 - Annat Ikin - Director Medical Writing – 2021
Business Development:
Melissa A. Kelly Behrs (3) – Chief Alliance Officer – 2014
Edward Koval (4) – CBO - 2021
Anil Kapur* (6) - COO - 2019
34 - Jason Grossman - Ex Director, Commercial Operations - 2022
35 - Nishan Sengupta - VP, Market-Access, Pricing, Evidence Strategy - 2021
36 - Scott Hutson - VP Sales - 2022
37 - Denise Meyer – VP Medical Affairs – 2021
38 - Lorraine S - VP Marketing - 2022
39 - Christopher Cornell - Sr. Field Medical Liaison - 2022
40 - Helen Lee – Sr. Reporting Analyst - 2012
41 - Anthony Kuczynski – Analyst - 2019
42 - Aron Feingold - VP Investor Relations & Corporate Communication - 2022
Finance:
Olivia K. Bloom (2) – CFO – 1994
43 - Karen Boyce – VP -2008
44 - Andrew Good – Ex Director – 2006
45 - Gilian Fong – Director – 2021
46 – Iasko Cable – Sr. Clinical Trial Accountant – 2019
47 – Dave Clark – CPA, Corporate Controller - 2022
48 - Katherine Harmon, CPA, Assistant Controller - 2022
Data Management:
49 - Ben Thorp - Head of Clinical Data Management - 2022
50 - Sarfraz Haroon - Associate Director, Clinical Data Management - 2022
51 - Rana F.* – Director, Statistical Programming - 2020
52 - Sridevi Sridhar, CCDM – Associate Director – 2021
53 - Aswin Jayaraman - Director, IT Applications - 2022
Manufacturing:
54 - Patrick Murphy – VP Manufacturing – 2019
55 - Eric Mueller – Director – 2019
56 - Leslie C. – CMC Director - 2021
57 - Bharat Baral* – CMC Manager – 2021 & 2011
58 - William Garzon-Rodriguez* - Associate Director Drug Product Manufacturing – 2021
59 - Tim Tickner – Director, Supply Chain Management – 2022
Regulatory:
60 - Sharon McBain* - VP Global - 2019
61 - Shirin Mirshamsi* – Director EU – 2019
62 - Ilesh Sanathra* - Director Global – 2020
63 - Nick Lyon – Director – 2020
64 – Ronan Balicanta* Senior Manager, Submissions - 2022
65 - Tarin Araujo - Senior Manager US - 2022
66 - Joyce Reader - Sr Regulatory Consultant (+) - 2022
Biostatistics:
67 - Ying Wan* – VP - 2019
68 - Libo Sun* – Director - 2019
Quality Assurance and Quality Control:
69 - Denise Grippo – VP Quality and Compliance – 2019
70 - Samantha Taylor – QA Manager, Document Control – 2007
71 - Joe Denton – Director – 2019
72 - Damanjit Singh – Sr Manager – 2018
73 - Willie Mobley – Materials/Document Specialist - 2007
74 - Leah Wood – Manager – 2021
75 - Murugappa Vedachalam (+) – QA/QC/CMC Consultant - 2019
Legal and Intellectual Property:
Stephen L. Rosenfield (8) – CLO – 2011
76 - Pamela Smith – Associate General Counsel - 1999
77 - Christopher Johnson – Director - 2019
78 - Laura Reederson – Director - 2020
79 - Leslie Mooi – VP IP – 2007
80 - Abby B. – Sr Patent Paralegal - 2014
81 - Cheryl Northern – Sr. Contracts Manager – 2007
82 – Brittney Hernandez – Contracts Manager – 2021
Facilities Operations and Information Technology:
83 - Michael Yamada – VP -2007
84 - Jyoti Shetty – Sr Director IT – 2021
85 - John Albert - Director Information Technology Infrastructure - 2022
86 - Tim W - Associate Director, IT Business Systems - 2022
87 - Miguel Hundelt – Systems Administrator – 2018
88 – Julian Cornejo - Systems Administrator - 2021
89 - Briana Martinez – Ex Assistant - 2006
90 - Julia Mensing – Ex Assistant – 2011
91 - Stacie W. – Ex Assistant - 2020
92 - Mia Pham – Office Manager - 2020
Human Resources:
93 - Shannon Odam – HR Executive -2019
94 - Stephanie Dellari – Director - 2004
95 - Susan Finan – Employee Benefits – 2021
96 - Marisa Cerniglia - Manager, People Operations – 2021
97 – Jennifer Allen - Associate Director, Talent Acquisition – 2022
98 – Fiona McAuliffe – Talent Acquisition Associate - 2022
**This latest "known" Geron employee roster reflects the most recent additions of:
36 - Scott Hutson - VP Sales
38 - Lorraine S - VP MMarketing
50 - Sarfraz Haroon - Associate Director, Clinical Data Management
53 - Aswin Jayaraman - Director, IT Applications
66 - Joyce Reader - Senior Regulatory Consultant (+)
As of Feb 2022 - Karie Arnold – Director Clinical Operations (2021) - is no longer an employee at Geron. -Kmall
Last edited by kmall on Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:47 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: New VP Marketing.......yet another former JNJ employee
Former Janssen and JNJ employees now at Geron:
Janssen -
1. Dr. Aleksandra Rizo - Sr. Medical and Regulatory Advisor - 2019
2. Dr. Faye Feller, MD – CMO – 2019
3. Laurie Sherman – VP Clinical Operations – 2019
4. Souria Dougherty - Ex Director Clinical Science - 2019
5. Jennifer Riggs - Associate Director Clinical Science - 2022
6. Anil Kapur - COO - 2019
7. Rana F. – Director, Statistical Programming - 2020
8. Bharat Baral – CMC Manager – 2021 & 2011
9. William Garzon-Rodriguez - Associate Director Drug Product Manufacturing – 2021
10. Sharon McBain - VP Global Regulatory - 2019
11. Shirin Mirshamsi – Director EU, Regulatory – 2019
12. Ilesh Sanathra - Director Global, Regulatory – 2020
13. Ronan Balicanta - Sr Manager, Regulatory Submissions - 2022
14. Ying Wan – VP, Biostatistics - 2019
15. Libo Sun – Director, Biostatistics - 2019
JNJ
1. Nishan Sengupta - VP, Market-Access, Pricing, Evidence Strategy - 2021
2. Scott Hutson - VP Sales - 2022
3. Lorraine S - VP Marketing - 2022
4. Tarin Araujo - Sr Manager US, Regulatory - 2022
5. Joyce Reader - Sr Regulatory Consultant UK, Regulatory - 2022
*As of now, this is the current list of "known" ex-Janssen and ex-JNJ employees now working at Geron. Most likely more to come. -Kmall
Janssen -
1. Dr. Aleksandra Rizo - Sr. Medical and Regulatory Advisor - 2019
2. Dr. Faye Feller, MD – CMO – 2019
3. Laurie Sherman – VP Clinical Operations – 2019
4. Souria Dougherty - Ex Director Clinical Science - 2019
5. Jennifer Riggs - Associate Director Clinical Science - 2022
6. Anil Kapur - COO - 2019
7. Rana F. – Director, Statistical Programming - 2020
8. Bharat Baral – CMC Manager – 2021 & 2011
9. William Garzon-Rodriguez - Associate Director Drug Product Manufacturing – 2021
10. Sharon McBain - VP Global Regulatory - 2019
11. Shirin Mirshamsi – Director EU, Regulatory – 2019
12. Ilesh Sanathra - Director Global, Regulatory – 2020
13. Ronan Balicanta - Sr Manager, Regulatory Submissions - 2022
14. Ying Wan – VP, Biostatistics - 2019
15. Libo Sun – Director, Biostatistics - 2019
JNJ
1. Nishan Sengupta - VP, Market-Access, Pricing, Evidence Strategy - 2021
2. Scott Hutson - VP Sales - 2022
3. Lorraine S - VP Marketing - 2022
4. Tarin Araujo - Sr Manager US, Regulatory - 2022
5. Joyce Reader - Sr Regulatory Consultant UK, Regulatory - 2022
*As of now, this is the current list of "known" ex-Janssen and ex-JNJ employees now working at Geron. Most likely more to come. -Kmall