J. Leighton Read
Member
Board of Directors
Global Kinetics Corporation
Australia
Biography
Dr Read is the Acting Executive Chairman at GKC. Leighton is a US entrepreneur and investor with a track record of building companies commercialising medicines and life-science technologies. He was a managing director of Alloy Ventures and founded Affymax NV, where he served as President of the Pharma Division sold to GlaxoSmithKline, and spun out Affymetrix and Maxygen. Leighton was the founding investor, Chairman and CEO of Aviron which developed FluMist and has been a director of numerous companies and serves as a trustee and director of The BeneTech Initiative, BioVentures for Global Health and the UC Berkeley Foundation and School of Public Health Council. Leighton has won a number of awards in the field of life sciences and is based in San Francisco.
Research Interest
Pharma, Life Sciene and Medical Sciences
