Dominique Pahud

Dominique Pahud is a director in Advancing Innovation at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Pahud held several positions in R&D and Commercial at Genentech, Inc. in San Francisco, Calif., most recently serving as International Payer Strategy Leader in Oncology, where he lead the global development and implementation of strategies to assure patient access to the next generation of novel cancer therapies. While at Genentech, he received several awards for his extraordinary work and customer focus. Earlier, Pahud worked in business development at Celgene Corporation in Warren, NJ, and at LedbetterStevens in New York, where he led searches for the recruitment of senior executives in the Life Science industry.

Pahud earned an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School in New York and a BS in cellular molecular biology from the University of Michigan. While at the University of Michigan, he was a member of the honors research program focused on research in gene therapy and surgery. Pahud has dual citizenship in Switzerland and the United States. He is fluent in French and intermediate in German and Spanish.