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Pops has served as a member of Acceleron’s board of directors since 2004. Since 2009,Pops has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of Alkermes.From 2007 to 2009 he served as the Chairman of the board of Alkermes, and from 1991 through 2007 he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Alkermes. Pops also serves on the board of directors of Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., Epizyme Inc., the Biotechnology Industry Organization and Pharmaceutical Researcher and Manufacturers of America.He has previously served on the board of directors of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals from 2004 to 2008, and CombinatoRx, Inc. from 2001 to 2009. Pops also served on the board of directors of Reliant Pharmaceuticals, a privately held pharmaceutical company purchased by GlaxoSmithKline in 2007, and on the advisory board of Polaris Venture Partners.He was a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows from 2002 through June 2012.Pops received a BA in economics from Stanford Universit
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- • 2 investors at Alkermes are tracked.
- • 3,360 investors hold the CEO role in VCSift. Richard Pops is one of them.
- • 416 investors are based in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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