Jeffrey Leiden is an American businessman who is the executive chairman of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company based in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] He was initially appointed to the board of directors of the company in 2009 and was CEO and president from February 2012 to March 2020.[2][3]
Early life[edit]
Leiden grew up in Glencoe, a suburb north of Chicago. His mother was a primary school teacher, and his father was a clinical psychologist with a PhD in psychology. He has one sister. His grandparents on his mother’s side were Russian immigrants. At ten years old he learned to scuba dive, and by eleven he was a certified scuba instructor.[4
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