Sean is the Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel for Generate Biomedicines, overseeing all legal and compliance matters. He brings broad business leadership and extensive healthcare experience, including intellectual property creation and expansion, corporate partnerships and transactions, and crucial legal, ethics, and compliance matters.
Before joining Generate, Sean was General Counsel and Senior Vice President at the leading healthcare company Baxter International Inc. Under his leadership, Sean successfully oversaw the legal, compliance, and government affairs for several key projects, including the largest acquisition in Baxter’s history, Hillrom, Inc.
Before that role, he was General Counsel, Senior Vice President and Secretary at Apollo Education Group. Previously, he was Vice President for Commercial Law and Corporate Law at Amgen and Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Litigation at Fresenius Medical Care North America. Earlier in his career, Sean was a law firm partner at Foley & Lardner LLP and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago for eight years, prosecuting federal criminal cases.
Sean graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in History and graduated magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School.