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Summit Therapeutics Appoints Jeff Huber, Transformational Google and GRAIL Executive, to its Board of Directors
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) (“Summit,” “we,” or the “Company”) today announced that Jeff Huber has been appointed to its
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[{"type":"text","content":" MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nSummit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) (“Summit,” “we,” or the “Company”) today announced that Jeff Huber has been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.\n\n\n“It is an honor to add Jeff Huber to our excellent, diverse group of board members,” stated Robert W. Duggan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Summit. “Jeff’s executive leadership experience in healthcare and technology and his countless accomplishments evidence his ability to translate what’s possible into transformational success. As we seek to change the standard of care for solid tumors based on the potential of ivonescimab, we are thrilled to supplement our outstanding leadership team with a board member the caliber of Jeff.”\n\n\nMr. Huber is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Triatomic Capital Private LP since 2022, a venture capital firm helping entrepreneurs build 'century-defining' businesses & technologies. Prior to founding Triatomic, Mr. Huber was the Founding CEO and Vice Chairman of GRAIL, Inc. GRAIL's mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. Prior to GRAIL, he was a Senior Vice President at Alphabet Inc. (formerly Google Inc.). Over 13 years at Google, Mr. Huber co-founded Google's life sciences efforts in Google[x], and he led development and scaling for Google Maps, Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, etc.), and Google Ads. Earlier, Mr. Huber was VP of Architecture and Systems Development at eBay and SVP of Engineering at Excite@Home. He is a board member of both publicly traded and privately held companies, including Mammoth Biosciences, Inc., Manifold Biotechnologies, Inc., Electronic Arts Inc., Upstart Network, Inc., Openwater, Genalyte, Inc., Zapata Computing Inc., Weta FX Ltd, d-Matrix Corp., and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and is a former board member of GRAIL, Inc., Aldevron LLC, and Illumina, Inc. Mr. Huber holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.\n\n\n“Jeff’s breadth and depth of experience is unmatched,” added Dr. Maky Zanganeh, Chief Executive Officer, President, and a member of the Board of Directors of Summit. “I am thrilled to be working with Jeff as a member of our board to further propel Team Summit to achieving our goal of bringing ivonescimab to as many patients as possible wh...