Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Horton joined Vertex in June 2012. As Vertex’s Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Horton holds responsibility for Vertex’s global legal and compliance functions.
Prior to joining Vertex, Horton served as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Nordion Inc. (formerly MDS Inc.), a global health
science company, from 2005 to 2011. He joined MDS from PerkinElmer, Inc., where he was Vice President, Acquisitions, Ventures and General Counsel for the Life and Analytical Sciences business unit.
Horton began his legal career practicing corporate law at Ropes & Gray in Boston after working as a strategy consultant in the United States and Europe. Horton currently serves on the Board of Advisors for Beth Israel Deaconess—Needham Hospital and is formerly Chairman of Lumira Capital.
Horton holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and was awarded the D.A.A.D. Direktstipendium for study at the Universitaet Bonn.
