Geoff MacKay

Chair, BOD | Chair, Compensation Committee

Geoff MacKay

Chair, BOD | Chair, Compensation Committee

Mr. MacKay has served as CEO of several innovative biotech companies over the last 20 years. He is currently CEO of a Versant backed stealth start-up. Previously, he was founding CEO of AVROBIO Inc., which sold its lead asset to Novartis. Mr. MacKay was also the founding CEO of eGenesis Inc., a biotech dedicated to applying gene editing to xenotransplantation. During his tenure as CEO of Organogenesis Inc., the company received the first approval of an allogeneic cell therapy from the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and treated one million patients with living cell therapies. Earlier in his career, Mr. MacKay spent 11 years at Novartis in senior leadership positions, culminating as Vice-President Transplantation & Immunology. Past activities include Chairman of the Board of MassBio, Chairman of the Board of the Alliance of Regenerative Medicine, and a member of the advisory council to the Health Policy Commission for Massachusetts.