Clarivate Plc, a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust, today announced that Gordon Samson, currently Chief Product Officer, has been appointed President of its Intellectual Property (IP) market segment, effective April 1. The Company also announced that it has nominated Dr. Saurabh Saha to stand for election as a director at its 2023 Annual General Meeting of shareholders on May 4, 2023.
Samson joined Clarivate in October 2020 with the acquisition of CPA Global, having joined CPA Global in 2014 as Chief Operating Officer. During the last three years with Clarivate, Samson has made significant contributions, helping transform the Company’s APAC region and bringing together the Company’s entire product portfolio to offer customers a full range of enriched data, insights, analytics and workflow solutions. He has a long and successful track record of driving organizational transformation and growth in the IP industry and beyond, having held senior executive roles with both operating and P&L accountability for more than 20 years.
Dr. Saha is a physician-scientist, pharmaceutical executive, and biotech entrepreneur dedicated to discovering and developing novel life-changing medicines. He is notable for leading the development and demonstrating human effectiveness of two innovative cancer drugs, an ERK kinase inhibitor (Ulixertinib) and an oncolytic immunotherapy (C. novyi-NT). He is currently CEO of Centessa Pharmaceuticals, a global pharma company. Prior to Centessa, Dr. Saha was a Senior Vice President of R&D and Global Head of Translational Medicine for all disease areas at Bristol Myers Squibb. Other past roles include Venture Partner at Atlas Venture, a VC firm in Cambridge MA, Chief Executive Officer at Delinia, Chief Medical Officer of Synlogic, a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and head of the New Indications Discovery Unit at Novartis.
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