William F. Doyle

Director at Elanco

illiam F. Doyle previously served as an independent director on the Board of Directors of Zoetis Inc, having been nominated to the Zoetis board by Sachem Head and Pershing Square. Since 2004, Doyle has served as Executive Chairman of Novocure Ltd., a publicly traded global oncology company commercializing a novel platform technology to treat solid tumors, overseeing more than 1300% revenue growth and transition from $100 million loss to $100 million gain in adjusted EBITDA since the company went public in 2015.

Doyle also serves as the Executive Chairman of BlinkHealth LLC, which has developed the leading Pharmacy as a Service E-commerce platform unlocking lower prices, home delivery, and better outcomes for patients, and Minerva Neurosciences, a publicly traded clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. He also has served as a director of OptiNose, a publicly traded specialty pharmaceutical company, and as the Managing Director of WFD Ventures LLC, a private venture capital firm that has provided equity financing and industry expertise to medical device, pharmaceutical and healthcare technology companies since 2003.

Previously, Doyle was a member of Johnson & Johnson’s Medical Devices and Consumer Pharmaceutical Group Operating Committee and Vice President, Licensing and Acquisitions. While at Johnson & Johnson, he was Chairman of the Medical Devices Research and Development Council, Worldwide President of Biosense-Webster, Inc., and a member of the Boards of Cordis Corporation and Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation, Johnson & Johnson’s venture capital subsidiary. Earlier in his career, Doyle was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Doyle holds an S.B. in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

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