PatientsLikeMe Appoints Ed Godber as First Executive Vice President of Life Sciences Ventures

Industry Leader to Head up Patient-Focused Initiatives for Life Sciences Customers

CAMBRIDGE, MA., March 10, 2015— PatientsLikeMe today announced it has appointed Ed Godber as Executive Vice President of Life Sciences Ventures. In this newly created position, Ed is responsible for managing PatientsLikeMe’s life sciences business and bringing the patient agenda to the forefront of partners’ development and delivery operations. He reports directly to PatientsLikeMe CEO Martin Coulter.

“Our pharma, biotech and healthcare customers are asking us to guide and support their transition to a more patient-centric world, and to integrate the patient voice in all they do,” said Coulter. “Ed brings the perfect blend of skills to this mission. His patient-centered view and senior level industry, payer and healthcare experience will help our customers create even greater value for their patients.”

Ed has been advising and managing operations in numerous life sciences and healthcare companies for more than 20 years. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the London-based Health Labs Advisory Boards, where he was a strategic advisor to pharma, biotech, venture capital and nonprofit organizations. He also spent nearly five years at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as Senior Vice President, heading up access to medicines as part of the European Executive Team and exploring evidence innovation within the research and development division. In that position, he also co-founded a multi-million dollar external scientific collaboration on real world data.

Godber began his career in public health, strategic commissioning and policy research in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and has advised a wide range of transformational ventures, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chatham House Working Group on Anti-Bacterial Resistance.

“I’ve long admired PatientsLikeMe for sparking a revolution in healthcare with its community- and science-based platform for patients,” Godber said. “As a patient who has benefitted so much from the way in which PatientsLikeMe works, I’m excited and honored to be part of a team that is helping life science companies realize their deep-seated desire to enable the patient voice to transform the discovery and development process.”

Godber is based in London. He holds a master’s degree in health economics from the University of York and a master’s degree in business administration from the London Business School.

About PatientsLikeMe
PatientsLikeMe® (www.patientslikeme.com) is a patient network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine. Through the network, patients connect with others who have the same disease or condition and track and share their own experiences. In the process, they generate data about the real-world nature of disease that help researchers, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, providers, and nonprofits develop more effective products, services and care. With more than 300,000 members, PatientsLikeMe is a trusted source for real-world disease information and a clinically robust resource that has published more than 50 peer-reviewed research studies. Visit us at www.patientslikeme.com or follow us via our blog, Twitter or Facebook.

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