Dr. Felix J. Baker, Ph.D., is Lead Independent Director of the Company. He has served as one of our directors since July 2003 and as our lead independent director since February 2005. Dr. Baker is Co-Managing Member of Baker Bros. Advisors LP. Dr. Baker and his brother, Julian Baker, started their fund management careers in 1994 when they co-founded a biotechnology investing partnership with the Tisch Family. In 2000, they founded Baker Bros. Advisors LP. Dr. Baker holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Immunology from Stanford University, where he also completed two years of medical school. In addition to Seattle Genetics, Dr. Baker currently serves as a director of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Genomic Health, Inc., both of which are publicly-traded biotechnology companies. In addition, Dr. Baker previously served as a director of Ardea BioScience, Inc., AnorMED Inc., Conjuchem, Inc., Neurogen Corporation, Synageva BioPharma Corp. and Trimeris, Inc., all of which were publicly-traded companies during Dr. Baker’s service as a director. As a board member and investor in many successful biotechnology companies, Dr. Baker is able to draw on his experience and vision in investing in and building companies to add significant value to Board of Directors discussions and company strategy.
As the Lead Independent Director of Seagen Inc, the total compensation of Felix Baker at Seagen Inc is $482,741. There are 11 executives at Seagen Inc getting paid more, with Clay Siegall having the highest compensation of $14,521,500.
Felix Baker is 51, he's been the Lead Independent Director of Seagen Inc since 2005. There are 18 older and 1 younger executives at Seagen Inc. The oldest executive at Seagen Inc is Marc Lippman, 75, who is the Independent Director.
Felix's mailing address filed with the SEC is BAKER BROTHERS INVESTMENTS, 667 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY, 10065.
Over the last 22 years, insiders at Seagen Inc have traded over $729,924,224 worth of Seagen Inc stock and bought 35,347,908 units worth $1,433,871,526 . The most active insiders traders include Bros. Advisors Lp667, L.P.B..., Felixbaker Julian Baker Bro... a Brothers Life Sciences Capi.... On average, Seagen Inc executives and independent directors trade stock every 8 days with the average trade being worth of $18,157,295. The most recent stock trade was executed by David R Epstein on 10 November 2023, trading 10,620 units of SGEN stock currently worth $2,262,166.
seattle genetics, co-founded by clay siegall, is a biotechnology company leading the field of antibody-drug conjugates (adcs) for the treatment of cancer. our technology is designed to harness the targeting ability of monoclonal antibodies to deliver cell-killing agents directly to cancer cells. our lead program, adcetris® (brentuximab vedotin), is the first in a new class of adcs and, in collaboration with takeda pharmaceutical company limited, is approved in more than 55 countries. to expand on the adcetris opportunity, we are conducting a broad clinical development program to evaluate its therapeutic potential in a range of other lymphoma and non-lymphoma settings. seattle genetics is also advancing a robust pipeline of clinical-stage programs, including sgn-cd19a, sgn-cd33a, sgn-liv1a, sgn-cd70a, asg-22me, asg-15me and sea-cd40. seattle genetics has collaborations for its adc technology with a number of leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, including abbvie, agensys
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