Company Info » Board of Directors
Genmab's Board of Directors meets for both ordinary and extraordinary
meetings during the year. Board duties include establishing policies for
strategy, accounting, organization and finance, and the appointment of
executive officers. The articles of association stipulate that the Board of
Directors is elected by Genmab shareholders at the Annual General Meeting
(AGM) and members are elected for three year terms on a rotating basis.
Members may stand for re-election for successive terms. The Board of
Directors shall consist of not less than three and no more than nine members.
The board of Directors has also established a compensation committee, an
audit committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee.
Our Board of Directors currently consists of seven members. The business
address for the members of the Board of Directors is c/o Genmab A/S,
Toldbodgade 33, 1253 Copenhagen K, Denmark.

Chairman
(60 Years)
American
Dr. Widmer is Chairman of our board of directors and has been a member of
our board since March 2002. Dr. Widmer is the former Vice President and
Director of Biological Sciences of Immunex Corporation in Seattle. Prior to
joining Immunex in 1984, he was an assistant professor in Laboratory
Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota. He is a former
Scholar of the Leukemia Society of America. His research has centered on
regulation of the immune and inflammatory response. He has authored over
100 scientific publications. During his tenure at Immunex, Dr. Widmer
pioneered the use of cytokine antagonists, particularly soluble cytokine
receptors, as pharmacologic regulators of inflammation. He was instrumental
in the development of Enbrel, a soluble receptor for TNF marketed by Amgen
and Wyeth Ayerst for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. He received a
Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and completed a
postdoctoral fellowship in Immunology at the Swiss Institute for
Experimental Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Deputy Chairman
(56 Years)
Danish
Dr. Pedersen has been a member of our board since November 2003. Dr.
Pedersen is Senior Vice President, Development at H. Lundbeck A/S.
Following his degree in medicine and Research Fellow positions at
Copenhagen hospitals, Dr. Pedersen worked for Eli Lilly for eleven years;
ten of these as a director overseeing worldwide clinical research in
oncology, before joining Lundbeck in 2000. At Lundbeck, Dr. Pedersen is
responsible for the development of the product pipeline including clinical
research. He is a member of the European Society of Medical Oncology, the
International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the American
Society of Clinical Oncology, the Danish Society of Medical Oncology and
the Danish Society of Internal Medicine and serves on the boards of
TopoTarget A/S and ALK-Abelló A/S. Dr. Pedersen received his medical degree
and a doctoral degree in neuro-oncology from the University of Copenhagen
and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Copenhagen Business School.

Board Member
(54 Years)
American
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Drakeman has been a member of our board and our President and CEO since
the company's inception. Dr. Drakeman has over eighteen years of
experience working in the biotechnology industry, including leading
Genmab's successful financing transactions, establishing corporate
partnerships with major pharmaceutical companies, managing clinical trials of
monoclonal antibody-based products and developing government programs for
financing biotechnology research. Dr. Drakeman serves on the board
of BioNJ. She has received a number of awards and honors including being
named "Advocate of the Year" by the Biotechnology Industry
Organization in 1995, "Industry Woman of the Year" by the
Biotechnology Council of New Jersey in 1996 and being inducted in the New
Jersey High Technology Hall of Fame in 2000. She previously served as a
member of the faculty and administration at Princeton University and as
Senior Vice President, Head of Business Development for Medarex, Inc. She
received a B.A. degree, from Mount Holyoke College, M.A., from Rutgers
University, and M.A. and Ph.D., from Princeton University.

Board Member
(73 Years)
German
Dr. Schweizer has been a member of our board since our inception and was
Head of Business Development from 2002 to 2005. Dr. Schweizer served as
President of Medarex Europe from 1999 until 2001, and was previously Deputy
Director of World-wide Business Development and Licensing for Novartis,
from 1997 to 1999, and Chief Scientific and Technical Adviser in Business
Development and Licensing at Ciba-Geigy AG from 1983 to 1997. Dr. Schweizer
also serves on the board of Speedel Holding Ltd. (CH), Speedel Pharma Ltd.
(CH), Speedel Pharmaceuticals Inc. (US) and Canyon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
(US), Canyon Pharmaceuticals AG (CH), Canyon Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (UK).
Furthermore, Dr. Schweizer is a member of the board for CNW Customer
Network AG (CH) and brain in action AG (CH). In addition he has his own
company SPC Schweizer Pharma Consulting. He received a doctoral degree in
chemistry from the University of Stuttgart.

Board Member
(58 Years)
Danish
Mr. Pedersen has been a member of our board since March 2002. He has more
than 25 years experience as an attorney within Danish corporate law and
corporate governance. Mr. Pedersen has been a partner in the law firm
Hjejle, Gersted & Mogensen since 1981. He was admitted as barrister to
the Supreme Court of Justice in 1983. Mr. Pedersen was a member of the
Danish Appeal Board (2000-2003) and was a member of the Danish Bar and
Law Society, Committee of Legal Affairs (2001-2007). From 1991-2004, he was
a member of the Editorial Committee of the Danish legal magazine “Lov &
Ret.” Mr. Pedersen is a member of the board for BIG Fonden and its
subsidiaries and other Danish legal entities.

Board Member
(76 Years)
American
Dr. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics at
Princeton University. His specialties include financial markets, portfolio
management, corporate finance, investments and securities valuation. He is
widely published in finance, the valuation of stocks and bonds and the
operation of financial markets in the United States. Dr. Malkiel was
previously professor of Economics, the Gordon S. Rentschler Professor of
Economics and Director of the Financial Research Center at Princeton
University. He has also served as a member of the Council of Economic
Advisors under the administration of US President Gerald R. Ford and was
Dean at the School of Management and the William S. Beinecke Professor of
Management at Yale University. Dr. Malkiel served as an officer in the
United States Army Finance Corps before earning his doctoral degree. Dr.
Malkiel is an investment committee member of the American Philosophical
Society and the Corvina Foundation and serves on the board of Vanguard
Group Ltd. He received his B.A. degree in Economics from Harvard
University, a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Graduate
School of Business Administration and a doctorate in Economics and Finance
from Princeton University.

Board Member
(48 Years)
Danish
Mr. Munch-Jensen is Director at Prospect where he advises listed
companies in relation to strategic and financial communication.
Previously, Mr. Munch-Jensen was Executive Vice President, CFO of H.
Lundbeck A/S from 1998 to 2007, where he was responsible for overseeing the
company’s finance and investor relations activities. He previously
served as a politics and finance columnist for the newspaper Dagbladet
Børsen and as Vice President of the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. He was
a member of various Lundbeck boards as well as the European Federation of
Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and of Vækstforum,
Region Hovedstaden. Mr. Munch-Jensen received his master in Political
Science from the University of Aarhus.