Julia P. Gregory

Ms. Gregory has served as a member of Iconic Therapeutics’ Board of Directors since April 2017. She is a seasoned biotechnology executive with CEO, CFO, board and investment banking skills. She has a proven track record of successfully growing, capitalizing and repositioning private and public biotechnology companies. She is well-versed in corporate governance and SEC issues. She has extensive experience in recruiting outstanding management teams and overcoming significant challenges. As a biotechnology executive, she has raised more than $1.5 billion for biotechnology companies across all types of business cycles and structured creative strategic alliances and transactions for them with pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., Genentech, Inc. (now Roche) and Human Genome Sciences (now GSK). Most recently, she was CEO and Board member of ContraFect, which focused on new biologics as an alternative to antibiotics. Prior to ContraFect, she was CEO and Board member of FivePrime Therapeutics, where she led a clinical-stage, biotechnology company discovering and developing innovative protein and antibody therapeutics in the fields of oncology and immunology. She was EVP Corporate Development and Chief Financial Officer of Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Prior to her corporate experience, Ms. Gregory was an investment banker for over 20 years primarily as Head of Healthcare and Investment Banking at Punk, Ziegel & Company and at Dillon, Read & Co, Inc. She received a B.A. in international affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.