About Shionogi Inc.
Management Team
John Keller, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Keller joined Shionogi Inc. in July of 2010, as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy, and was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer, and as a member of the Shionogi Inc, Board of Directors, in April 2011.
Immediately prior to joining Shionogi, Dr. Keller was a Partner in SR One, the venture capital group of GlaxoSmithKline. Previously, Dr. Keller served as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Incyte Corporation, playing a key role in its transformation into a drug discovery and development company and establishing its first major corporate alliance after that transformation. Before Incyte, Dr. Keller had a 16 year tenure at GlaxoSmithKline and its predecessor, SmithKline Beecham, culminating in the position of Vice President, Worldwide Business Development. In that role, he structured numerous licensing agreements with a broad range of partners worldwide, including the agreements establishing the Shionogi-GSK (now Shionogi-ViiV) Pharmaceuticals joint venture. Earlier positions encompassed R&D strategy, technology licensing, alliance management, public policy, project management, and drug discovery research.
Dr. Keller holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Rutgers University and a Bachelor degree in biology from Johns Hopkins University.