Daniel N. Swisher

Daniel N. Swisher, Jr, became a member of our Board in June 2015. He has been the President and Chief Operating Officer of Jazz Pharmaceuticals since January 2018. From 2003 to December 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. From 2005 to 2017, he was also its President. He joined Sunesis in 2001 and had previously served as the company’s Chief Business Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, Mr Swisher held a range of senior management roles, including Senior Vice president of Sales and Marketing at ALZA Corporation, a pharmaceutical and medical systems company, from 1992 to 2001. Mr Swisher has served as Chairman of the Board of Cerus Corporation, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, since 2013. Mr Swisher received his BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr Swisher brings to our Board experience in life science industry sales, operations, and finance.