Stephen Schiavo

Stephen Schiavo was named senior vice president of Human Resources in June 2020 after joining Alkermes in 2018. Mr. Schiavo leads Alkermes’ human resources function, with responsibility for global compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, HR business partnering, employee engagement, organization and leadership development, and diversity & inclusion. Mr. Schiavo reports into Richard Pops, President and CEO of Alkermes, and sits on the company’s Executive Management Committee.

Mr. Schiavo has more than 18 years of HR Business Partner and HR leadership experience helping to develop and scale organizations, teams and individuals. Prior to joining Alkermes, Mr. Schiavo was VP, Human Resources for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where he served as the Head of their HR Business Partner function. While there, Mr. Schiavo held roles across the business and was instrumental in many aspects of their growth and evolution from a small, R&D-stage organization to a leading, global biotech. Prior to joining Vertex, Mr. Schiavo worked in the Financial Services industry where he held a number of senior human resource positions at companies including Prudential Financial and Cigna.

Mr. Schiavo earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Boston University and a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations degree from Cornell University.