Katherine Eade

Katherine is a seasoned legal and business executive with more than 19 years of experience advising public companies on significant corporate transactions, corporate governance and capital markets, including a dozen years in the life sciences industry. She serves as a member of the board of directors of Harvard Bioscience, where she is the chair of its governance committee and a member of the audit committee. Prior to joining Checkmate, Ms. Eade was Vice President, Strategic Commercial Affairs at Align Technology, and she previously served as the Director, M&A Law and Transactions for Corning Incorporated and Division Counsel for Corning’s Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Technologies divisions. She began her legal career at Cleary Gottlieb, a leading international law firm, and she served as a law clerk for Judge Morton I. Greenberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She received a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a BA in government, summa cum laude, from Cornell University.