Arthur D. Levinson

Arthur D. Levinson (born March 31, 1950 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American scientist and manager . He was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) between 1995 and 2009 and Chairman of the Board of the biotechnology company Genentech between 1999 and 2014 . He is currently Chairman of the Board at Apple , and CEO of Google Inc. , founded biotechnology company Calico .

Levinson was also co-founder and chairman of the foundation that awards the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences .

Education and life

Levinson studied molecular biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1972 . In 1977 he received a PhD in Biochemistry from Princeton University . He then conducted research at the University of California, San Francisco under the later Nobel Prize winners John Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus .

He has been married since 1978 and has two children.

Career

Levinson worked at Genentech in drug research since 1980 and developed, among other things, a process for the production of complex proteins. From 1989 he also took on management positions, but continued researching part-time. He is credited with more than 80 scientific publications and eleven US patents.

Genentech named him CEO in 1995 and Chairman of the Board in 1999 .

Levinson has been a member of Apple's board of directors since 2000 and has served as chairman since 2011. He was also a member of Google's board of directors between 2004 and 2009 , but then resigned to avoid possible conflicts of interest . He has also been a member of the board of directors of Genentech's parent company, Swiss pharmaceuticals group Roche , since 2010 . He is also a member of the supervisory boards of several medical organizations and research institutions, such as the New York Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center .

Since September 2013, Levinson has been CEO of the biotechnology company Calico, which specializes in diseases of the elderly . Among the first investors are Google and Levinson himself. In 2014 he gave up the chairman of the board of Genentech. In order to avoid conflicts of interest between the CEO position at Calico and his role at Roche, Levinson also stepped down from the Roche Board of Directors on September 4, 2014.

Awards

Levinson has received a large number of awards throughout his career, both for academic and business achievement. Many of the awards Genentech has received under his leadership can also be attributed to his work.

The University of California, San Diego , together with Dennis Slamon , presented him with the UCSD / Salk Translational Medicine Award in 1999 for developing new approaches to the therapy of metastatic breast cancer . Princeton University awarded Levinson the James Madison Medal in 2006 for research in the field of biotechnology. In 2008 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2010 he received the Biotechnology Heritage Award .

In 1999 Levinson accepted Corporate Leadership Awards from the Irvington Institute for Immunological Research and the National Breast Cancer Coalition . The company's particular commitment to research was praised. Levinson's achievements as CEO of Genentech have received numerous awards including BusinessWeek , Barron's and Glassdoor.com, a website that relies on anonymous reviews from employees.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : Health Company Calico - Google's Mission against Aging , from September 19, 2013
2. ^ Art Levinson, Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Yuri Milner announce the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. February 20, 2013, accessed April 3, 2016.
3. ^ ^{A b} Daniel S. Levine: Executive of the Year: Arthur Levinson drives Genentech. San Francisco Business Times, December 19, 2004, accessed September 19, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Arthur D. Levinson . NNDB. Retrieved October 4, 2011.}
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Arthur Levinson, Chairman of Genentech Inc. Broad Institute, accessed September 19, 2011 (short profile on the website of the Broad Institute , of which Levinson is a board member). 
6. ^ Genentech Names Levinson as New Board Chair and Announces Appointment of Two New Directors. Genentech, September 22, 1999, accessed September 19, 2011 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Apple appoints Arthur D. Levinson as chairman of the board. Media release from November 15, 2011
8. ^ Arthur Levinson resigns from Google's Board of Directors. macrumors.com, October 12, 2009, accessed September 19, 2011 . 
9. ^ Arthur Levinson resigns from Google's Board of Directors. Google, October 12, 2009, accessed September 19, 2011 . 
10. ↑ Google announces Calico, a new company focused on health and well-being. Google, September 18, 2013, accessed September 18, 2013 . 
11. ^ Roche press release: Roche announces change in Board of Directors. ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 4, 2014, accessed September 4, 2014. 
12. ↑ ^{a b} Past Awards and Recognitions. Genentech, archived from the original on December 31, 2010 ; Retrieved September 19, 2011 (English). 
13. ^ List of Active Members by Class. (PDF; 267 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. American Academy of Arts & Sciences, p. 130 , archived from the original on October 5, 2011 ; Retrieved September 19, 2011 (English, autumn 2010). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ Which CEOs were naughty and nice in 2008? In: Bits Blog. New York Times, December 26, 2008, accessed September 19, 2011 .