About Us

James (Jim) Robinson serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Alkermes. He leads the commercial, operations, business development and human resources functions. Mr. Robinson’s nearly 25-year career spans a variety of diverse disciplines within the health care industry, including sales, marketing, new product planning, market access, reimbursement, government affairs and managed markets. He joined Astellas in 2005 as vice president of health systems, rising to President of Astellas Americas Operations in 2016. Prior to joining Astellas, he served as an executive at the former Schering-Plough Corporation, which was acquired by Merck & Company in 2009. Beginning his career in 1992, he quickly advanced through the corporation, rising to vice president in charge of hepatitis sales and managed care leading the largest specialty pharmaceutical sales division within Schering-Plough. Mr. Robinson is a member of The Commercial Club of Chicago and serves on the BioScience Council for ChicagoNEXT. He is a founding member and serves on the board of directors of MATTER and is also on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Botanic Garden and Museum of Science and Industry Chicago. Mr. Robinson received his Bachelor of Science degree from DePaul University.

Iain Brown is responsible for Alkermes’ accounting and financial reporting systems, as well as its tax, treasury, financial planning and analysis, and insurance functions. Mr. Brown has more than 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. He joined Alkermes in 2003, prior to which he managed EMD Serono’s North America financial operations. Mr. Brown received a Bachelor of Science in Business Studies from the University of Bradford, England and is a Chartered Accountant.

Madeline Coffin leads Alkermes’ human resources team, with responsibility for global compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, employee engagement and growth and organization development. Ms. Coffin has held a number of senior human resource positions at companies including Analog Devices, Sun Microsystems, Wang Software and Bay Networks. Prior to joining Alkermes, she founded her own company, which focused on the strategic human resource needs of growing companies for clients in a broad range of industries. Ms. Coffin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Penn State University and a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Grace Doyle is responsible for Quality at Alkermes, incorporating the Quality Assurance, Quality Control, and Validation functions at the company’s manufacturing sites in Athlone, Ireland and Wilmington, Ohio. Her role also includes responsibility for Quality oversight of development- and clinical-related activities at the company’s Waltham, Massachusetts site and the external network. Ms. Doyle joined Alkermes as Quality Assurance Director of the FDA/EMA-licenced Athlone site upon completion of the merger between Elan Drug Technologies (EDT) and Alkermes, Inc. in September 2011. Prior to joining Alkermes, Ms. Doyle was responsible for Quality-related functions at Bristol Myers Squibb and biotechnology company GeneMedix. Ms. Doyle holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Dublin City University and a Master of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology from Trinity College Dublin.

Jim Frates serves as Chief Financial Officer of Alkermes. Prior to joining Alkermes in 1998, Mr. Frates was a Vice President in charge of the East Coast Life Sciences Practice at Robertson Stephens & Company. He also worked in healthcare investment banking at Morgan Stanley & Company and spent a year teaching secondary school at the Royal Shrewsbury School in the U.K., as the Harvard College Fellow. Mr. Frates served on the Board of Directors of GPC Biotech AG from June 2004 to June 2009 and was a national director of the Association of Bioscience Financial Officers. Mr. Frates serves on the Board of Directors of SAGE Therapeutics and as a Trustee of the Roxbury Latin School. Mr. Frates received a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

David Gaffin serves as Alkermes’ in-house Chief Legal Officer, managing the operations of the legal department and the Chief Compliance Officer. Mr. Gaffin was most recently the U.S. General Counsel of Alkermes. Prior to joining the company in 2005, Mr. Gaffin held the role of Assistant General Counsel at Biogen Inc., where he provided legal counsel on product-related matters and negotiated collaboration and licensing transactions. Mr. Gaffin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College, a Master of Business Administration from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University School of Law.

Georgianna Harris leads the regulatory affairs department at Alkermes. In this role, Dr. Harris provides regulatory strategy and guidance for development candidates and commercial products. Prior to joining Alkermes, Dr. Harris spent 25 years at Merck, in positions of increasing responsibility spanning laboratory research and regulatory affairs. During her tenure with Merck’s regulatory affairs organization, Dr. Harris oversaw global development, registration and post-registration activities for multiple small-molecule and biologic medicines for obesity, bone, oncology, diabetes and women’s health indications. Dr. Harris received a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin. She was subsequently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Department of Chemistry.

Thomas Harvey leads the information technology function and is the Chief Information Officer for Alkermes. Mr. Harvey has been at Alkermes for more than 13 years and oversees IT for the enterprise. He started as the Director of IT in 2005 and increased his responsibilities due to aggressive growth at the company where he was promoted to vice president. He directed the successful integration of the IT technologies and business solutions during the merger of Alkermes and Elan Drug Technologies.
Prior to joining Alkermes, Mr. Harvey held several IT roles over the course of 16 years, where he reported to the President and General Manager of Abbott Diabetes Care. Mr. Harvey serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Boston CIO Executive Leadership Summit. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Craig Hopkinson, M.D., is responsible for evolving and executing the clinical development programs for the company’s pipeline of drug candidates. Dr. Hopkinson has more than 20 years of experience building and leading clinical development organizations and medical affairs groups in the biopharmaceutical industry. He has led multidisciplinary development teams in multiple therapeutic areas, including neuroscience, oncology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, cardiovascular conditions, inflammation, genetic diseases, hematology and neurodegenerative diseases, and has extensive knowledge of clinical study design and the regulatory landscape. Most recently, Dr. Hopkinson held the position of Senior Vice President and Head of Global Medical Affairs for Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Prior to this role, Dr. Hopkinson held various executive management positions at Eisai Pharmaceuticals, including President of Eisai Value Maximization Systems, President and Chief Medical Officer of the Frontier Product Creation Unit, and Vice President of Medical Affairs, Oncology. In addition, Dr. Hopkinson served in leadership positions at Elan Pharmaceuticals, Actelion Pharmaceuticals and Pfizer. Dr. Hopkinson completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of the Orange Free State in South Africa.

Blair Jackson leads Corporate Planning at Alkermes, encompassing Business Development, Business Planning, Data Analytics, Procurement & Strategic Sourcing and Corporate Project Management. Since joining Alkermes in 1999, Mr. Jackson has served in various roles within the company in both a scientific and corporate capacity. Mr. Jackson serves on the Board of Directors of Reset Therapeutics. Mr. Jackson received a Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry from the University of Calgary, a Bachelor of Arts in Chemical Engineering, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Alberta, and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering practice from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mike Landine oversees Alkermes’ corporate development activities that include Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, Patient Engagement, Information Technology and operations at the Massachusets facility. Prior to leading corporate development, Mr. Landine served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Alkermes from March 1988 until June 1998. Mr. Landine is a member of the Board of Directors of Kopin Corporation, a publicly traded manufacturer of components for electronic products. He also previously served on the Board of Directors of GTC Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company, from 2005 to 2010. Mr. Landine received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Bentley University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Mark Namchuk leads research, pharmaceutical development, process development and nonclinical development of the company’s early-stage product pipeline at Alkermes. Prior to joining Alkermes in 2015, Dr. Namchuk served as Senior Vice President and Interim Global Head of Research for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, leading a group of more than 450 researchers in the discovery of transformational medicines in the areas of infectious disease, oncology, inflammatory diseases, neurology and cystic fibrosis. In addition, Dr. Namchuk developed the high throughput enzymology paradigm in support of the Vertex Chemogenomics effort and co-chaired the committee responsible for new-target selection and prosecution for the company. Earlier in his career, he served as the head of the biochemistry group at Cubist Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Namchuk obtained his doctorate in bioorganic chemistry from the University of British Columbia and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.

Peter Norman leads the U.S. Policy and Government Relations function for the company, which includes federal and state initiatives as well as programs with professional and patient organizations. Prior to joining Alkermes in 2013, Mr. Norman was the head of the Washington, D.C. office for Eisai, Inc. In addition, he’s held senior positions for Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Novo Nordisk and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Mr. Norman worked on public policy and regulatory strategies not only for Alzheimer’s disease, obesity and diabetes pharmaceutical products, but also healthcare reform and reimbursement issues. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Adrian College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Toledo College of Law.

Declan O’Connor is responsible for Alkermes’ manufacturing operations at the Athlone, Ireland and Wilmington, Ohio sites as well as its commercial and clinical supply chain functions. Mr. O’Connor is responsible for the strategic development of operations activities and site infrastructure development. He joined Alkermes as Vice President and General Manager in Athlone upon completion of the merger between Elan Drug Technologies (EDT) and Alkermes, Inc. in September 2011. In this role, he was responsible for the company’s FDA/EMA licensed multi-product development, manufacturing and packaging operations in Ireland. Mr. O’Connor held a number of senior operations positions for Elan including Vice President of Finance, Head of Global Supply Chain and Head of Finance U.S. Operations. Mr. O’Connor is a chartered accountant and a graduate of University College Dublin, Ireland.

Lisa von Moltke is Head of Clinical Development at Alkermes that includes Clinical Sciences and Medical Directors, Translational Medicine/Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Writing and DMPK/BA. Prior to joining Alkermes, Dr. von Moltke served as Vice President Clinical Pharmacology at Sanofi/Genzyme Corporation and was US Head Clinical & Exploratory Pharmacology Sciences (CEP) and Early Development. Starting from 2014 she was Head CEP for Japan and China regions. In 2006, Dr. von Moltke was Head, Translational Medicine for the Takeda Oncology Company in Cambridge, MA. She has served as President of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and as the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. Dr. von Moltke earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree at Wellesley College and her Doctor of Medicine from Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine.

Jeff Winton leads Public Affairs at Alkermes and is responsible for corporate brand and reputation, communications, patient engagement and corporate social responsibility.

Mr. Winton is an accomplished corporate affairs and communications professional, bringing more than 30 years of experience to Alkermes. Most recently he served as Chief Communications Officer and Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs at Astellas Pharma as well as President for the Astellas Foundation. Mr. Winton established Astellas’ first-ever Corporate Affairs function and received industry recognition for the organization’s work across several diverse functions. Prior to Astellas, Mr. Winton was Head of Global Communications at Eli Lilly and Company. He has also held communications roles at Roche as well as other pharmaceutical companies including Pharmacia and Schering-Plough that were later acquired by Pfizer Inc. and Merck & Company respectively.

Mr. Winton earned a Bachelor of Science in life sciences from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and has completed graduate course work at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.