Geoff McDonough, MD
Chair
Geoff has served as the chairman of our board of directors since October 2025 and served as our president and chief executive officer from October 2017 to October 2025. Previously, he served as the president and chief executive officer of Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (Sobi) from 2011 to 2017. Before Sobi, he held various senior roles at Genzyme Corporation, including the president of Genzyme Europe and senior vice president and general manager of the global lysosomal storage disease business. Geoff has a Bachelor of Science in biology and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating summa cum laude in both. He obtained his MD at Harvard Medical School and completed his residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital.