James Shannon biography
Dr. James Samuel Shannon M.D., is Independent Director of the Company. Dr. Shannon currently serves on the board of directors of MannKind Corporation, a public biopharma company focused on treatments for diabetes, and ProQR Therapeutics NV, a public biotechnology company. From May 2012 to March 2015, Dr. Shannon served as the chief medical officer of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Prior to that, Dr. Shannon spent more than a decade with Novartis, a public pharmaceutical company. In his last role with the company, as global head of pharma development, he was responsible for all of Novartis’s development activities, from pre-clinical through Phase 4 and oversaw an annual development budget of approximately $4 billion. Dr. Shannon received his science and medical degrees from Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He also serves as chairman of the board of directors of Kyowa Kirin (NA), a private biopharma company and subsidiary of Kyowa Kirin, and on the boards of directors of Immodulon Therapeutics Limited, a private biopharma company, and MyTomorrows, a private health-based platform that collaborates with drug developers to provide early access to treatments for patients who have exhausted all other options.
What is the salary of James Shannon?
As the Independent Director of Horizon Therapeutics Plc, the total compensation of James Shannon at Horizon Therapeutics Plc is $507,237. There are 11 executives at Horizon Therapeutics Plc getting paid more, with Timothy Walbert having the highest compensation of $13,873,200.
