John Mayfield

Company: Flagship Pioneering

Job title: Senior VP, Business Development & Strategy

Bio:

John joined Flagship Pioneering in 2024 as Senior Vice President of Business Development & Strategy. In this role, John leverages his expertise in licensing, transactions, and establishing strategic collaborations within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics industries to head business development efforts for Flagship companies.

Before joining Flagship, John was the Chief Business Officer at Be Biopharma, building out the BD function, leading partnering efforts, and exploring technologies to empower the platform. John also held roles at EQRx where he was most recently the VP, Corporate and Business Development, leading a team that executed significant deal-flow spanning co-development and co-commercialization partnerships to licensing and collaboration agreements for preclinical, clinical and, commercial-stage medicines. John also held business development roles of increasing responsibility at Voyager Therapeutics and Foundation Medicine and was a member of the development teams at Foundation Medicine and Illumina. John has served as an advisory board member of the University of Florida Innovate | Accelerate since 2021 and TGEN Enterprise Directed Programs since 2023.

Seminars:

ADC Deal-Making: Will Success Lead to More Success? 2:10 pm

Discussing opportunity for and examples of creative deal structures across ADCs  For payloads: Do you need the full ADC payload for a deal? For linkers: What drives deals with different types of linkers?  For target discovery: What are the differences in deal structure versus linkers and payloads? Sharing guidance to progress from a research collaboration…Read more

day: Conference Day Two