Paul A. Friedman, M.D. has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and as Chief Executive Officer since July 2016. Dr. Friedman served as a member of Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp.’s Board of Directors from March 2014 until April 2016. Dr. Friedman served as the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Incyte Corporation from November 2001 until his retirement in January 2014. From 1994 to 1998, he served as President of Research & Development for the DuPont-Merck Pharmaceutical Company, and from 1998 to 2001, as President of DuPont Pharmaceuticals Research Laboratories, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DuPont Company. From 1991 to 1994, he served as Senior Vice President at Merck Research Laboratories. Prior to his tenures at Merck and DuPont, Dr. Friedman was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Friedman is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Friedman currently sits on the Board of Directors of Cerulean Pharma Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, Verastem, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, Incyte Corporation, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, and Gliknik, Inc. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, and Durata Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. Dr. Friedman received his A.B. in Biology from Princeton University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.