Lynne Parshall
B. Lynne Parshall has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2022. She has also served as a Director of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since September 2000 and as a Senior Strategic Advisor to Ionis from January 2018 to December 2022. Previously she served as Ionis’s Chief Operating Officer from December 2007 through January 2018 and as its Chief Financial Officer from June 1994 through December 2012. She also served as its Corporate Secretary through 2014 and has served with Ionis in various executive roles since November 1991.
Prior to joining Ionis, Ms. Parshall practiced law at Cooley LLP, where she was a partner from 1986 to 1991. Ms. Parshall has also served as the CEO of Lyme Pinnacle Consulting LLC, a strategic consulting firm in the life sciences industry, since 2018.
Ms. Parshall has served on the boards of directors of Cytokinetics, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company, since February 2013; Repertoire Immune Medicines, Inc., a private company in the life sciences industry, since 2021; Ring Therapeutics, Inc., a private company in the life sciences industry, since 2022; Alltrna, Inc., a private company in the life sciences industry since 2023; and Celdara Medical, LLC, a private company in the life sciences industry, since 2023. She also served on the board of directors of Akcea Therapeutics, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company, from January 2015 until its acquisition by Ionis in October 2020. Ms. Parshall received her NACD Directorship Certification in 2023. Ms. Parshall received an A.B. from Harvard University and her J.D. from Stanford University.