About Us

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.

Todd Nichols leads the sales and marketing organizations at Alkermes. In this role, Mr. Nichols oversees the commercial strategy for all marketed products. Prior to joining Alkermes, Mr. Nichols held the position of Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Inflammation and Immunology at Celgene, where he was responsible for developing and managing all aspects of U.S. commercial planning, brand P&L, strategy development, go-to-market modeling and launch execution for ozanimod. Mr. Nichols began his career in 1995 at Schering-Plough (acquired by Merck in 2009), where he held a variety of sales and marketing positions across multiple therapeutic franchises. While at Merck, Mr. Nichols served in numerous senior roles including Vice President and Head of the U.S. Vaccine Business Unit. Mr. Nichols joined Biogen in 2014 as Vice President, U.S. Sales and Field Operations, and achieved record sales for three consecutive years. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in accounting from Elon University.

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.

Sondra Smyrnios was named senior vice president of Clinical Operations at Alkermes in July 2019. In this role, Ms. Smyrnios is responsible for providing supervisory leadership of clinical program management, data management, clinical programming, data sciences, global clinical services, and clinical outsourcing. Her additional responsibilities include resource planning, line management, and departmental growth, as well as oversight of trial execution, clinical compliance, outsourcing strategy, CRO and vendor strategic partnerships, and vendor rebate/discount negotiations. Ms. Smyrnios reports into Craig Hopkinson, Chief Medical Officer at Alkermes, and sits on the company’s Executive Management Committee.

Prior to accepting the position of senior vice president, Ms. Smyrnios served as vice president of Clinical Operations at Alkermes and has held a variety of other leadership positions throughout her tenure with the company. Notably, she has grown Alkermes’ Clinical Operations department from eight to 55 employees and negotiated strategic provider discounts and risk-share agreements, resulting in over $35M in savings in five years.

Ms. Smyrnios’ career has spanned over 25 dynamic and diverse years within the pharmaceutical industry. Before joining Alkermes in 2009, she served as senior vice president of Omnicom Systems Inc. In 2007, she founded a start-up company, Evia Clinical Services, LLC, that focused on servicing small pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Her company’s success led to it being acquired by UMC, Inc. Earlier in her career, Ms. Smyrnios held positions with Kos Pharmaceuticals, Janssen, Sanofi and Eli Lilly.

Ms. Smyrnios earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Concordia University in Montreal and holds her master’s from McGill University in Montreal. Ms. Smyrnios speaks fluent English and French and her work has been published in scientific journals.

Kenton Stewart is the senior vice president of Health Systems Business Unit at Alkermes. Since stepping into this position in July 2018, Mr. Stewart launched the company’s seminal Health Systems Business Unit function. Mr. Stewart also led the development of Alkermes’ pricing and contracting strategies to maximize access and support sales performance and implemented a comprehensive business planning strategy for Alkermes products across all payer channels. Mr. Stewart reports into Richard Pops, President and CEO of Alkermes, and sits on the company’s Executive Management Committee.

Mr. Stewart has made a significant impact at several leading global pharmaceutical companies throughout his more than 25 years in the industry. Prior to joining Alkermes in 2018, Mr. Stewart served as senior vice president of Health Systems at Astellas Pharma, where he advanced for over a decade in leadership positions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Stewart was senior director, licensing and business development, at TAP Pharmaceuticals, where he led corporate business development and acquisitions. Previously, he served in various roles at Abbott Laboratories, including sales, sales management, product management and marketing management.

Mr. Stewart earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, from Wichita State University. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Bellevue University.