Geoff Cotton

Dr. Cotton is a healthcare executive, venture capital adviser, and angel investor with 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He spent over 17 years with Gilead Sciences Inc. in Medical Affairs and Commercial roles of increasing responsibility culminating in leadership of the Global Commercial Strategy group, and leadership of the U.S. HIV business unit, with responsibility for over $8B in revenue and $100M of expenses annually. Dr. Cotton has extensive experience in U.S. pharmaceutical product launch and promotion, Key Opinion Leader development, sales leadership and execution, product lifecycle development, U.S. and EU pricing and reimbursement, portfolio strategy, M&A assessment, clinical development, and medical affairs. His therapeutic experience includes anti-virals and anti-infectives, immunology, oncology, cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal disease. Dr. Cotton has worked in the U.S., EU, Global, and country-level roles. Under Dr. Cotton’s business unit leadership, Gilead launched Genvoya®, Odefsey®, and Descovy® for the treatment of chronic HIV infection, with Genvoya® achieving the fastest launch of any HIV product at that time. Dr. Cotton also launched Truavada® for post-exposure prophylaxis, a novel HIV preventative achieving over $1B in revenue in the U.S.

Dr. Cotton graduated in Medicine with a BSc and MB BS from the University of London and practiced internal medicine in the UK prior to joining the pharmaceutical Industry. He has an MBA from Golden State University.