Mr. Mike Heffernan
Chairman
Mr. Mike Heffernan
Mr. Heffernan is a successful entrepreneur and biopharmaceutical leader with over 30 years’ experience building development-stage and commercial biopharmaceutical companies.
He is the CEO and Chairman of the US-based oncology company Avenge Bio, Inc. which he co-founded in 2019.
Mr. Heffernan is also a board member of numerous public and private biotech companies including Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: BHVN), Synlogic, Inc. (NASDAQ CM: SYBX), Trevi Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: TRVI), Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (NASDAQ: COLL), K36 Therapeutics (private) and NMD Pharma (private).
Mr. Heffernan has held numerous previous leadership positions during his career. Prior to co-founding Avenge Bio, he founded Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. a specialty pharmaceutical company in 2018 where he served as CEO and currently serves as Chairman. Other previous leadership positions include CEO of Onset Dermatologics, a commercial-stage dermatology company that he founded and spun out of Collegium to create PreCision Dermatology, which was acquired by Valeant in 2014. He also co-founded and served as CEO of Clinical Studies Ltd., a pharmaceutical contract research organization that was acquired by PhyMatrix Corp. in 1997.
Mr. Heffernan began his career at Eli Lilly and Company where he served in numerous sales and marketing roles. He is a registered pharmacist and earned his B.Sc. Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Connecticut.