Linda Richardson

Linda Richardson serves as the Chief Commercial Officer. Prior to her appointment to this role in February 2021, she served as Senior Vice President and Head of the Cholestasis Program since joining Intercept in 2018. Ms. Richardson has more than 30 years of commercial strategy, sales and marketing experience. Prior to joining Intercept, Ms. Richardson served as Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer at Chimerix, Inc., where she oversaw marketing, market access and reimbursement, market research and analytics, forecasting, supply chain and distribution strategies, commercial operations, product communications and sales. From 2008 to 2013, Ms. Richardson held commercial leadership roles of increasing responsibility at Sanofi, where she led the company’s global GLP-1 diabetes franchise. Prior to joining Sanofi, Ms. Richardson held roles of increasing responsibility at both Reliant Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline. Ms. Richardson has been recognized by PM360 as an “ELITE 100” award winner in the pharmaceutical industry, by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association as a “Rising Star,” and by PharmaVOICE as one of its “Top 100 Most Inspiring People in Life Sciences.” Ms. Richardson holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania.