 Jim Neal
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Neal joined Iconix Biosciences,
Inc. in June 2002 as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining
Iconix, Mr. Neal was Executive Vice-President responsible
for Sales, Marketing and Business Development and a member
of the Executive Team at Incyte Genomics. Mr. Neal led a group
of over 100 people responsible for Incyte’s global commercial
activities with clients and collaborators. Incyte’s
customer and partner base is a ‘who’s who’
of the world’s Pharmaceutical and large Biotech companies.
Mr. Neal was with Incyte since mid-1999 in this capacity.
Prior to joining Incyte, Mr. Neal served as General Manager
of the Solaris Group, a division of Monsanto Company. Mr.
Neal held various positions of increasing responsibility with
Monsanto since 1982. Mr. Neal has had a vast amount of experience
bringing products to a market and forming valuable business
and technology collaborations globally. Mr. Neal was born
in Australia and moved to Canada in the early 1970’s
where he completed his B. Sc. in Biology and his M. Sc. in
Genetics and Plant Breeding from the University of Manitoba.
Mr. Neal moved to St. Louis in 1988, where he completed an
Executive MBA from Washington University, in 1992. Mr. Neal
has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993.
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