Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr. M.D. Ph.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. He has served as a member of our Board since January 2014. Dr. Gotto currently serves as Dean Emeritus and Provost for Medical Affairs Emeritus and as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and is currently a consultant to Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine. From January 1997 to December 2011, he served as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University. Previously, Dr. Gotto served as J.S. Abercrombie Chair of Atherosclerosis and Lipoprotein Research and Chairman and Professor of the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital. Dr. Gotto is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gotto is also a past president of the International Atherosclerosis Society and a past president of the American Heart Association. Dr. Gotto holds a B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University, a D.Phil. degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University in England, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and an M.D. degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Gotto was a member of the board of directors of Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. until December 2, 2016, when it merged to form Novelion Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVLN). Gotto is qualified to serve as a member of our Board based on his broad industry experience and expertise in lipid disorders.
As the Independent Director of Esperion Therapeutics, the total compensation of Antonio Gotto at Esperion Therapeutics is $295,000. There are 11 executives at Esperion Therapeutics getting paid more, with Timothy Mayleben having the highest compensation of $1,080,850.
Antonio Gotto is 84, he's been the Independent Director of Esperion Therapeutics since 2014. There are no older and 15 younger executives at Esperion Therapeutics.
Antonio's mailing address filed with the SEC is C/O ESPERION THERAPEUTICS INC., 3891 RANCHERO DRIVE, SUITE 150, ANN ARBOR, MI, 48108.
Over the last 11 years, insiders at Esperion Therapeutics have traded over $197,978,412 worth of Esperion Therapeutics stock and bought 6,755,593 units worth $134,445,709 . The most active insiders traders include Patrick G Enright, Target N Vbb Biotech Ag Bio... a Nicole Vitullo. On average, Esperion Therapeutics executives and independent directors trade stock every 33 days with the average trade being worth of $145,621. The most recent stock trade was executed by Eric Warren on 19 August 2024, trading 211 units of ESPR stock currently worth $411.
esperion therapeutics, inc. is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing first-in-class, oral, ldl-c lowering therapies for the treatment of patients with hypercholesterolemia. etc-1002, the company's lead product candidate, is an inhibitor of atp citrate lyase, a well-characterized enzyme on the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway; the same pathway that includes hmg-coa reductase, the enzyme target of statins. the company has successfully completed its phase 1 and phase 2 development programs for etc-1002, and plans to initiate its etc-1002 phase 3 development program by the end of 2015. for more information, please visit www.esperion.com.
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