Senior Management

Tim Van Hauwermeiren co-founded our Company in 2008 and has served as our CEO since July 2008. He has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2014. Mr. Van Hauwermeiren has more than 20 years of general management and business development experience across the life sciences and consumer goods sectors. Mr. Van Hauwermeiren holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in bioengineering from Ghent University (Belgium) and an executive MBA from The Vlerick School of Management. Tim Van Hauwermeiren serves on the board of directors of iTeos Therapeutics, Inc., and Aelin Therapeutics NV where he is chairman. At our 2022 General Meeting, he was reappointed as executive director to the Board of Directors for a new term of four years.

Karen Massey has served as our chief operating officer since March 2023. Ms. Massey has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, including in commercial, product development, corporate strategy and innovation roles. Prior to joining argenx, Ms. Massey was with Genentech (Roche Group) for over nine years, where she most recently served as senior vice president of product development and global clinical operations and previously held various commercial leadership roles across marketing and business operations, including as the vice president of the multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica business. Ms. Massey started her biopharmaceutical career in marketing at Pfizer, Inc., and returned there, after two years as a management consultant at Bain & Company, to take on leadership positions in corporate strategy, sales and as a commercial lead in Latin America. Ms. Massey holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Prof. Hans de Haard is a co-founder of argenx and has served as our chief scientific officer since July 2008. Prof. de Haard has been active in the antibody engineering field since 1989. He also serves as a Professor of immunology at University of Franche-Comté (France). Prof. de Haard holds a Master of Science in biochemistry from the Higher Professional Education for Laboratory Technicians (Oss, the Netherlands) and a Master of Science in chemistry from the Institute of Technology (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and a Ph. D. in molecular immunology from Maastricht University. Prof. de Haard retired as chief scientific officer as of December 31, 2022 and was subsequently appointed as member of our research and development committee, in which capacity Prof. de Haard will remain involved with the Company as scientific advisor and as ambassador of our IIP.

Malini Moorthy has served as our general counsel since February 2022. She has over 25 years of extensive global legal and compliance experience in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries. She was most recently senior vice president and chief deputy general counsel, legal, compliance and government affairs at Medtronic plc where she played a pivotal role in shaping and driving enterprise and functional strategies. Before joining Medtronic plc, Ms. Moorthy spent four years at Bayer Corporation as the head of global litigation and investigations and ten years at Pfizer Inc., where she progressed to lead civil litigation globally. Ms. Moorthy began her career as a law firm associate, first with McCarthy Tétrault LLP and Genest Murray Desbrisay Lamek LLP in Toronto, Canada and then Salans LLP (now Dentons US LLP) in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Laws from the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in Canada.

Wim Parys joined the Company as chief medical officer in 2019 and retired as on March 31, 2022. He had over 25 years of experience leading successful clinical programs in biopharma, including the development and regulatory submission of seven now-approved drugs. Prior to argenx, Mr. Parys was the research and development head of the newly established global public health group at Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) responsible for a portfolio including programs in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (developing first long-acting therapy), tuberculosis (TB), dengue fever and malaria. Before this, Mr. Parys was the head of development of the infectious disease therapeutic area of Janssen and Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd. where he developed and launched innovative drugs for HIV (Prezista™, Intelence™ and Edurant™), Hepatitis C (Incivo™, Olysio™/Sovriad™), and TB (Sirturo™). Mr. Parys started his career within the Johnson & Johnson organization at the Janssen Research Foundation in Belgium where he led the research and development team developing galantamine (Reminyl™/Razadyne™) for Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Parys obtained his medical degree from the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium and worked in private practice for nine years prior to joining the industry. Following his retirement, Mr. Parys was appointed as member of our research and development committee, in which capacity Mr. Parys has agreed to continue to serve as medical advisor to the Company.

Andria Wilk joined argenx as global head of quality in 2020. Ms. Wilk has more than 20 years of experience in quality assurance (QA) within the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently, Ms. Wilk served as senior director, head of medical, regulatory & clinical QA (MRC QA) at H Lundbeck A/S (Lundbeck), where she managed the global MRC QA group based in the EU, U.S. and Asia. In this role, she was responsible for the global audit programs and QA support for all clinical trial and post-marketing activities and related computerized systems. Prior to Lundbeck, she held various QA positions of increasing responsibility within AstraZeneca PLC, Takeda Global Research and Development Centre Europe and Astellas Pharma, Inc. Ms. Wilk holds a joint Bachelor of Science in pharmacology and biochemistry and is a member of Research Quality Association.