People: Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (HALO.O)

Dr. Jonathan E. Lim is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. Dr. Lim joined Halozyme in 2003 and has served as Halozyme’s President and Chief Executive Officer since that time. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Lim was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in the health care industry, serving a wide range of start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in the biopharmaceutical, medical products, and payor/provider segments. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Lim was a recipient of a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship, during which time he conducted clinical outcomes research at Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in peer-reviewed medical journals such as the Annals of Surgery and the Journal of Refractive Surgery. Dr. Lim’s prior experience also includes two years of clinical training in general surgery at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Founder and President of a health care technology start-up company; Founding Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Journal of Medicine; and basic science and clinical research at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Dr. Lim is currently a California-licensed physician and is a volunteer surgeon in his spare time. He was a member of the strategic planning committee of the American Medical Association from 2002 to 2005. He earned a B.S., with honors, and an M.S. in Molecular Biology from Stanford University, an M.D. from McGill University, and an M.P.H. in Health Care Management from Harvard University.