NEW YORK, Dec. 7 Royalty Pharma is pleased to announce that Alexander von Perfall has joined the company as Vice President, Investor Relations.
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Alexander has 13 years of cross-border management advisory, strategic planning and principal investment experience, most recently as co-founder and Chief Network Officer of XTF, a start-up Exchange Traded Funds Ratings Agency. He previously advised the International Finance Corporation/World Bank Group on the syndication of media sector private equity investments. Alexander started his career with Bertelsmann AG where he held various management positions, culminating with a position as Director of Business Development where he initiated and oversaw investments in a number of early stage media and entertainment ventures. Alexander attended the Hoschchule St. Gallen in Switzerland before obtaining a BA in Politics from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from the New York University - Stern School of Business.
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"The addition of Alexander to our management team adds an important element of investor relationship management," said Pablo Legorreta, Chief Executive Officer of Royalty Pharma. "Alexander will play a key role in Royalty Pharma's efforts to enhance its investor and key stakeholder strategy and communication, including acting as a liaison between Royalty Pharma's management team and equity and debt investors, the analyst community and media representatives."
About Royalty Pharma
Royalty Pharma is the industry leader in acquiring revenue-producing intellectual property - principally royalty interests in marketed and late stage biopharmaceutical products with approximately $6 billion in assets. Royalty Pharma currently owns a diversified portfolio of royalty interests in several high- quality blockbuster biopharmaceutical products, including Abbott's Humira®, J&J/Merck's Remicade®, Pfizer's Lyrica®, Amgen's Neupogen® and Neulasta®, Genentech's Rituxan®, Gilead's Emtriva®, Truvada® and Atripla®, and Celgene's Thalomid®. Royalty Pharma has a thirteen year history of providing value to holders of royalty interests, including its $700 million purchase of the Lyrica® royalty from Northwestern University, its $650 million purchase of the Remicade® royalty from New York University, its $700 million purchase of the Humira® royalty from AstraZeneca plc following its acquisition of Cambridge Antibody Technology, its joint $525 million acquisition with Gilead Sciences of Emory University's emtricitabine royalty interest and its acquisitions of approximately 80% of Memorial Sloan Kettering's U.S. and international royalty interests in Neupogen® and Neulasta® for over $400 million. For more information, go to www.royaltypharma.com.
More information on Royalty Pharma is available at www.royaltypharma.com.
For additional information, please contact:Pablo Legorreta Alexander v. PerfallChief Executive Officer VP, Investor Relations+ 1 (212) 883-2288 + 1 (212) [email protected] [email protected]
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