Jim Jacobson

Jim Jacobson serves as the Company’s Chief Legal Officer, with responsibility for all legal, contractual and compliance matters. Jim has more than 25 years of experience in life sciences, biotech and health care law as partner and chair of the life sciences and FDA practices of two global law firms, and as General Counsel to both start-up and publicly traded pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Jim recently served as General Counsel to Q-State Biosciences, Senior Attorney and Chief U.S. Privacy Counsel to Merck KGaA, and General Counsel and Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Counsel for Aptus Health, a Merck & Co., Inc. affiliate serving pharmaceutical and HCP customers in 80 countries. Before that, Jim was chief counsel to the pharmaceutical and device division of Fresenius Medical Care, one of the world’s largest diversified drug, device and health care services providers.

Earlier in his career, Jim served as judicial clerk on the D.C. Court of Appeals, special counsel to the Clinton White House health care task force, and general or special counsel to numerous life sciences and healthcare industry groups, including the Population Health Alliance/Disease Management Association of America; PhRMA, BIO and the Healthcare Distribution Management Association; health insurance and managed care groups including BCBSA, American Association of PPOs, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), and the American Benefits Council (ABC); and multiple provider associations, including the AMA, APA, ACC, AHA and FAHS.

Before law school, Jim had a career as a research analyst, running clinical trials in psychopharmacology at Mass General Hospital, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in infectious disease and tropical medicine in Thailand. Jim is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Yale College.