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Roy Whitfield is the former President Chief Executive and Chairman of Incyte Corporation. Mr. Whitfield co-founded Incyte in 1989 and served as its Chief Executive until 2001 and as Chairman of the Board from 2001 until 2003. In 1997 Mr. Whitfield was named Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year for life sciences. From 1984 to 1989 Mr. Whitfield held general management and business development positions with Technicon Instruments Corporation a medical instrumentation company and its predecessor company Cooper Biomedical Inc. a biopharmaceutical and medical diagnostics company. Prior to his work at Technicon Mr. Whitfield spent seven years in the Boston Consulting Group’s international management consulting practice.
Roy holds a bachelor of administration degree in mathematics from Oxford University and a master of business administration degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He currently serves as a director of Incyte Corporation Nektar Therapeutics Inc. and three privately held biotechnology companies. | 