Board Of Directors
Meet our Board.
Our board of directors is made up of healthcare leaders, biotech executives, finance experts and more. They possess deep expertise in biopharmaceuticals, healthcare, law, strategic leadership, global marketing, finance, and other disciplines. Board members meet regularly to maintain and accelerate the business’ trajectory in bringing our innovative biopharmaceutical therapeutics to the market

Lindsay Androski, JD, MBA, CFA
President & CEO and Chairperson

Ms. Androski joined Arbutus in February 2025 as President and CEO and Chairperson of the Board. Ms. Androski, an MIT-trained biologist, has nearly 30 years of experience in biotechnology, law, and academia. She has served in a variety of roles at Roivant including President and CEO of Roivant Social Ventures and Vice President, Head of Acquisitions. At Roivant she built and led the team responsible for the in-licensing or acquisition of more than 30 therapeutic programs, resulting in the launch and incubation of 16 subsidiary biotechs and several successful IPOs. Prior to joining Roivant, Ms. Androski spent more than a decade as a trial lawyer, including as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. Earlier in her career, Ms. Androski was a strategy consultant advising Fortune 100 clients on merger integration and other business challenges. She is currently a member of the board of directors at Eloxx Pharma. Ms. Androski holds two Bachelor of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, JD and MBA degrees from The University of Chicago, is a registered Patent Lawyer and a CFA charterholder. She serves as a Trustee of MIT, where she Chairs the Visiting Committee for the Department of Chemistry, and sits on the Visiting Committees for the Department of Biology, the Department of Humanities, Sponsored Research, and the Advisory Board of the MIT Press.
Robert Beardsley
Director

Robert Beardsley has over 30 years of experience in drug development and company building. In his various executive and management roles, Dr. Beardsley has been responsible for driving funding, strategic partnerships and development of patient centric solutions. Dr. Beardsley has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cirius Therapeutics since September 2024. Previously, he served as Executive Chair and Chief Operating Officer of Galera Therapeutics from 2012 to June 2024, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Galera Therapeutics from 2009 to 2012, Chief Executive Officer of Metabolic Solutions Development Corporation from 2009 to 2010, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kereos from 2003 to 2009, acting Chief Executive Officer of MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals during 2002, Principal at bioStrategies Group from 1997 to 2002, and Equity Research Associate at Vector Securities International from 1994 to 1995. He currently also serves on the board of directors of Metallomix and Euclises Pharmaceuticals, and previously served on the boards of KemPharm, Collagenex Pharmaceuticals, BioSeek, and MetaPhore Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Beardsley earned his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering and his B.S. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Iowa, and his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Joseph Bishop
Director

Joseph Bishop has served as Roivant’s Senior Vice President, Finance since April 2024. Mr. Bishop was previously Roivant’s Vice President, Finance from July 2018 to March 2024. As part of his roles at Roivant, Mr. Bishop has served as Chief Financial Officer for a number of Roivant’s Vants, including Pulmovant and Telavant. In these roles, Mr. Bishop oversees financial governance and operations for the Vants. Prior to joining Roivant, Mr. Bishop was Head of Equities and Portfolio Manager at Pine River Capital Management from 2013 to 2017, Portfolio Manager at Citadel Investment Group from 2010 to 2012 and Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Intrepid Capital Management from 2001 to 2010. Mr. Bishop earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Matthew Gline
Director

Matthew Gline is the Chief Executive Officer of Roivant, a position he has held since January 2021. He has also served as a Director of Roivant since September 2021. As CEO, Mr. Gline plays a key role in setting the strategy for Roivant, along with the rest of the Board of Directors, and executing on that strategy with Roivant’s management team, including making capital allocation decisions across the Roivant portfolio. Mr. Gline joined Roivant in March 2016 and previously served as Chief Financial Officer, from September 2017 through his appointment as CEO, and as Senior VP, Finance and Business Operations. Prior to joining Roivant, Mr. Gline was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Fixed Income Digital Structuring, from 2014 to 2016, and co-founded Fourthree, a risk analytics technology and consulting company, from 2012 to 2014. Mr. Gline also serves on the board of directors of Datavant, the world’s largest health data ecosystem. Mr. Gline earned his A.B. in Physics from Harvard College.
Roger Sawhney, MD
Director

Dr. Sawhney most recently served as the Chief Financial Officer of LB Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the neuropsychiatry space. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Garuda Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company. Prior to this, Dr. Sawhney served as the Chief Financial and Business Officer of Omega Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company. He served at KKR & Co., a global investment firm, as Director of its healthcare private equity and growth equity investment platforms. Dr. Sawhney also served as Senior Vice President and Head of Global Corporate Strategy for Novartis AG, a public pharmaceutical company, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Outcome Health, a healthcare technology company, and as a Partner with both Bain & Company and Boston Consulting Group, global management consulting firms. He currently serves on the Boards of Actuate Therapeutics (NASDAW: ACTU), Adlai Nortye (NASDAQ: ANL) and Bobcat Bio. Dr. Sawhney previously served on the Boards of Arcellx (NASDAQ: ACLX), Alimera Sciences (NASDAQ: ALIM) and the New York Institute of Technology. Dr. Sawhney earned an MD from Harvard Medical School and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.

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