Primary Job Title President, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Director Primary Organization 
Tarsa Therapeutics
Location Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States Regions Greater Philadelphia Area, Great Lakes, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Mr. Brand has more than three decades of pharmaceutical industry experience.
Prior to Tarsa, he served as CEO and president of Cardiokine, where he led strategic and organizational development and negotiated a significant global agreement with Biogen Idec for late stage development and marketing of lixivaptan.
Previously, Mr. Brand spent over
30 years at GlaxoSmithKline and its predecessor companies.
Most recently, he headed the U.S. GI/CNS, product development, metabolic and cardiovascular business units, leading the U.S. launches of Paxil®, Requip® and Avandia®, the pre-launch development of Coreg®, Kytril® and Augmentin® ES/XR, and many co-marketing and licensing deals.
Earlier, Mr. Brand held international senior management positions in marketing, acquisitions, business development and regional country management.
He currently serves on the board of directors at Intekrin Therapeutics.
Mr. Brand holds a bachelor of commerce degree from Concordia University in Montreal.
