Jerry McMahon

Jerry has over 30 years of biotechnology leadership, scientific innovation, creative deal-making, and financing experience. With broad disease-area expertise and a specialty in oncology therapeutics, Jerry has held scientific, pharmaceutical and venture capital positions and has been the CEO or President of multiple biotechnology companies leading novel therapeutic programs from discovery, development to drug approvals for internal and in-licensed products.

From 2016 to late 2021 Jerry was President and CEO of NASDAQ listed Harpoon Therapeutics building the Company from early stage through to IPO, follow-on financings, and development collaborations. Prior to that he held multiple positions, including President and CEO of Kolltan Pharmaceuticals which was acquired by Celldex, Innovative Medicine Head of Oncology and SVP at AstraZeneca-Medimmune, managing a more than $1 billion global R&D budget and President at SUGEN/Pfizer where he was instrumental in invention and full development of several ground-breaking protein kinase inhibitors including sunitinib (Sutent®).

Jerry has also held academic appointments at the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center at Yale University, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his BS in biology and PhD in the field of biochemistry and genetics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has authored over 100 scientific and medical publications and is an inventor on over 60 US patents.