Gregg H. Alton

At Gilead, Mr. Alton served as interim Chief Executive Officer, responsible for the company’s strategy, growth and operations. As Chief Patient Officer, he led Gilead’s patient outreach and engagement initiatives and the company’s efforts to facilitate access to its medicines around the world. He oversaw the corporate and medical affairs functions and developing world access programs, as well as its digital patient solutions and patient-centered outcomes groups and commercial operations in certain countries. Mr. Alton joined Gilead in 1999, and held a number of positions at the company with experience in legal, medical affairs, policy and commercial. He previously served as general counsel.

Prior to joining Gilead, he was an attorney at the law firm of Cooley Godward, LLP, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, corporate partnerships and corporate finance transactions for healthcare and information technology companies. Mr. Alton is a member of the Board of Directors of the AIDS Institute, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Oakland, and the Partners in Health Board of Trustees.

He serves on the U.S. government’s Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the advisory boards for UCSF Global Health Group, USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Collidion, Inc. Mr. Alton received a bachelor’s degree in legal studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree from Stanford University.

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