Kathy Rouan

Dr. Kathy Rouan is currently serving as a Non-executive Board member at Viking Therapeutics and Navidea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She is an experienced drug developer and leader with nearly 30 years of pharmaceutical industry experience. Her most recent role was at GSK as Senior Vice President and head of Global Clinical Operations, Statistics and Programming, Clinical Pharmacology, GCP Quality, Third Party Resourcing and Project Management functions, which encompassed approximately 1800 staff in 20 countries. In this role, Kathy was a member of the R&D Executive Management Team and Scientific Review Boards. She previously was the Head of R&D for Stiefel, a dermatology focused subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and Head of Biopharmaceutical Development, which developed GSK’s biopharmaceutical portfolio. She has experience across a wide range of therapeutic areas and led the regulatory approval process for a novel therapy to treat lymphoma. Kathy earned a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Rhode Island, while conducting her research at Pfizer’s Immunoinflammation Research group in Groton, Connecticut. She holds a B. Pharm., First Class Honours, from the University of London.