Valerie Andrews JD

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Biography

Ms. Valerie Andrews serves as Board Member at Summit Plc. was appointed to the board of directors in September 2014 and has extensive skills in business and legal matters related to the healthcare industry. Ms Andrews has held executive and non-executive roles within publically listed biotechnology companies, major hospitals and in legal practice and has garnered expertise across a number of areas including strategic transactions, corporate governance, risk management and compliance. Ms Andrews served as the General Counsel for Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc until May 2014. Prior to joining Vertex in 2002, she was an Executive Director of Licensing for Massachusetts General and The Brigham and Women's Hospitals in Boston, and a partner in the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow. She served as a law clerk to the Chief Judge Levin H Campbell of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1988 to 1989. Ms Andrews has also been a Non-Executive Director of the drug development company Columbia Laboratories since 2005. Ms Andrews is a member of the Massachusetts Bar, and holds a JD in law (Boston College) and a BA in chemistry and psychology (Duke University).