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About Genmab » Board of Directors
Genmab's Board of Directors meets for both ordinary and extraordinary meetings during the year. Board duties include establishing policies for strategy, accounting, organization and finance, and the appointment of executive officers. The articles of association stipulate that the Board of Directors is elected by Genmab shareholders at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and members are elected for two year terms on a rotating basis. Members may stand for re-election for successive terms. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than three and no more than nine members. The Board of Directors has also established a compensation committee, an audit committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee.
Our Board of Directors currently consists of nine members. The business address for the members of the Board of Directors is c/o Genmab A/S, Bredgade 34, 1260 Copenhagen K, Denmark.  Chairman
(64 Years)
American
Dr. Widmer is Chairman of our Board of Directors and has been a member of our board since March 2002. Dr. Widmer is the former Vice President and Director of Biological Sciences of Immunex Corporation in Seattle. Prior to joining Immunex in 1984, he was an assistant professor in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota. He is a former Scholar of the Leukemia Society of America. His research has centered on regulation of the immune and inflammatory response. He has authored over 100 scientific publications. During his tenure at Immunex, Dr. Widmer pioneered the use of cytokine antagonists, particularly soluble cytokine receptors, as pharmacologic regulators of inflammation. He was instrumental in the development of Enbrel, a soluble receptor for TNF marketed by Amgen and Wyeth Ayerst for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. He received a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Immunology at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland.
 Deputy Chairman
(60 Years)
Danish
Dr. Pedersen has been a member of our board since November 2003. Dr. Pedersen is Executive Vice President, Development at H. Lundbeck A/S. Following his degree in medicine and Research Fellow positions at Copenhagen hospitals, Dr. Pedersen worked for Eli Lilly for eleven years; ten of these as a director overseeing worldwide clinical research in oncology, before joining Lundbeck in 2000. At Lundbeck, Dr. Pedersen is responsible for the development of the product pipeline including clinical research. He is a member of the European Society of Medical Oncology, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Danish Society of Medical Oncology and the Danish Society of Internal Medicine and serves on the boards of Bavarian Nordic, TopoTarget A/S and ALK-Abelló A/S. Dr. Pedersen received his medical degree and a doctoral degree in neuro-oncology from the University of Copenhagen and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Copenhagen Business School.
 Board Member
(62 Years)
Danish
Mr. Pedersen has been a member of our board since March 2002. He has more than 25 years experience as an attorney within Danish corporate law and corporate governance. Mr. Pedersen has been a partner in the law firm Bruun & Hjejle since 1981. He was admitted as barrister to the Supreme Court of Justice in 1983. Mr. Pedersen was a member of the Danish Appeal Board (2000-2003) and was a member of the Danish Bar and Law Society, Committee of Legal Affairs (2001-2007). From 1991-2004, he was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Danish legal magazine "Lov & Ret." Mr. Pedersen is a member of the board of EKJ Fonden and Board Chairman of Redaktør Hans Voigts Mindelegat.
 Board Member
(79 Years)
American
Dr. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His specialties include financial markets, portfolio management, corporate finance, investments and securities valuation. He is widely published in finance, the valuation of stocks and bonds and the operation of financial markets in the United States. Dr. Malkiel was previously professor of Economics, the Gordon S. Rentschler Professor of Economics and Director of the Financial Research Center at Princeton University. He has also served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisors under the administration of US President Gerald R. Ford and was Dean at the School of Management and the William S. Beinecke Professor of Management at Yale University. Dr. Malkiel served as an officer in the United States Army Finance Corps before earning his doctoral degree. Dr. Malkiel is an investment committee member of the American Philosophical Society and the Maldeb Foundation and is an audit committee member of Theravance, Inc. and Vanguard Group Ltd. He received his B.A. degree in Economics from Harvard University, a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a doctorate in Economics and Finance from Princeton University.
 Board Member
(51 Years)
Danish
Mr. Munch-Jensen is the Chief Financial Officer at NordEnergie Renewables A/S. Previously, Mr. Munch-Jensen was Director at Prospect, where he advised listed companies in relation to strategic and financial communication. Mr. Munch-Jensen served as Executive Vice President, CFO of H. Lundbeck A/S from 1998 to 2007, where he was responsible for overseeing the company’s finance and investor relations activities. He previously served as a politics and finance columnist for the newspaper Dagbladet Børsen and as Vice President of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. He was a member of various Lundbeck boards as well as the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and of Vækstforum, Region Hovedstaden and currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Riddersalen Theater. Mr. Munch-Jensen received his master in Political Science from the University of Aarhus.
 Board Member
(62 Years)
Dutch
Dr. Wilderbeek was elected to Genmab's board in 2011. Dr. Wilderbeek is the former President of Organon International, Inc. Following his degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Utrecht, Dr. Wilderbeek worked in Tunisia with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before joining Intervet International, the animal healthcare unit of Akzo Nobel, in 1980. Dr. Wilderbeek was invited to join the Board of Management of Intervet International in 1991, and was appointed President in 1994. In 2002, after the acquisition of Hoechts Roussel Vet, he transformed Intervet into one of the world's largest animal healthcare companies, and Dr. Wilderbeek was appointed a Member of the Board of Management of Akzo Nobel responsible for all Pharma activities of Intervet, Organon, Diosynth and Nobilon. Dr. Wilderbeek assumed the position of President of Organon International in 2003 and in 2005 he coordinated the formation of Organon BioSciences. In 2007, Akzo Nobel accepted a take-over bid for Organon BioSciences by Schering-Plough, Dr. Wilderbeek arranged for the transfer of the company and resigned. In 2008, Dr. Wilderbeek started his own company in France.
 Board Member
(32 Years)
American
Mr. Bruno joined Genmab in 2008 and is currently the Controller of Genmab’s locations in the United States with overall responsibility for the finance activities at each location. He has nine years of broad finance experience including financial planning and analysis, technical accounting, internal controls, financial statement audits, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and license agreements. Before joining Genmab, he spent six years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Assurance and Business Advisory practice serving clients in Health Industries group, which included pharmaceutical, life science and biotech companies. He is a Certified Public Accountant and received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
 Board Member
(42 Years)
Swedish
Mr. Losic joined Genmab in 2004 and is currently Associate Director, Statistics at Genmab’s location in Copenhagen. He has worked in the pharmaceutical industry since 1996. Prior to joining Genmab he held positions at Ferring Pharmaceuticals and at Spadille Sweden, where he was Managing Director. He was the responsible statistician for two successful drug applications, one in 1999 and one in 2009. He also served on the board of directors for other non-industry associations. Mr. Losic received a M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Lund and a diploma in Management of Medical Product Innovation from the Scandinavian International Management Institute.
 Board Member
(49 Years)
Dutch
Dr. Vink joined Genmab in 2002 as Head of Molecular Biology. Currently he is leading the Cell and Molecular Science unit at Genmab’s R&D facility in Utrecht. Before joining Genmab, Dr. Vink worked for more than 15 years in life sciences research, specializing in molecular biology and biochemistry. Dr. Vink is the author of over 20 scientific publications and is named inventor on over 10 patents and patent applications. He received a M.S. degree in Biochemistry from Leiden University, and a Ph.D. from Utrecht University.
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