Tom Anderson

Biography

Tom Anderson joined as a Chief Commercial Strategy Officer SAGE in April 2014 as Chief Commercial Strategy Officer. Prior to SAGE, he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Commercial Assessment at Shire plc and served as General Manager for several of Shire’s psychiatry and neurology products. In addition, he led Shire’s specialty pharmaceutical commercial operations, business information and strategic marketing functions, and played a lead role in business development efforts. Prior to Shire and in two separate tenures, he spent 17 years in Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical companies, notably Janssen and Ortho-McNeil, where he held senior-level roles in marketing, marketing research, sales and sales management, operations and engineering. In between employments at Johnson & Johnson, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ranir Corporation – a dental products company – where he was also a Corporate Officer and Director, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Lander Co., Inc., a healthcare-related consumer packaged goods company, where he was previously a Corporate Officer.He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Notre Dame.

Research Interest

psychiatry and neurology products, pharmaceutical commercial operations, marketing research, sales and sales management, operations and engineering, healthcare.