Emile Williams

Emile Williams is an accomplished executive in the pharmaceutical industry, currently serving as Chief Operating Officer at Validus Pharmaceuticals since 2018. Prior to this role, Emile was EVP and Chief Commercial Officer at Shionogi Inc. from 2011 to 2017, where responsibility also included Finance and IT. Emile briefly held the position of Executive Finance Director at Novartis in 2011 and spent 16 years at Roche, culminating as VP of Commercial Operations Finance. Emile holds an MBA from Loyola University Maryland and a BS in Economics/Accounting from the University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College.