RACHEL KING

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GLYCOMIMETICS INC

Filing Date Source Excerpt
2019-04-10 She received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
2020-04-16 Ms. King is a co-founder of the company and has served as President and CEO; holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
2021-04-05 Ms. King is a co-founder of our company and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer... She received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
2022-04-11 Ms. King co-founded our company and has served as a member of our Board since our inception in 2003. Ms. King served as our president and chief executive officer from our inception in 2003 until August 2021. Previously, Ms. King was an Executive in Residence at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), an investment firm, from 2001 to 2003.
2023-04-21 Ms. King received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
2024-04-01 Ms. King co-founded our company and has served as a member of our Board since our inception in 2003. Ms. King served as our president and chief executive officer from our inception in 2003 until August 2021. Ms. King has served as the interim president and chief executive officer of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) from October 2022 to March 2024 and has served on its board of directors since 2005, including as chair of the board of BIO from 2013 to 2015. Previously, Ms. King was an Executive in Residence at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), an investment firm, from 2001 to 2003. From 1999 to 2001, Ms. King served as a senior vice president of Novartis Corporation, a pharmaceutical company. Before joining Novartis, Ms. King spent 10 years with Genetic Therapy, Inc., a biotechnology company, where she served in a number of roles as part of the executive team, which included the company’s initial public offering and later acquisition by Novartis. After the acquisition by Novartis, she served as the chief executive officer of Genetic Therapy, which was then a wholly owned subsidiary of Novartis. Ms. King previously worked at Alza Corporation, a pharmaceutical and medical systems company that was later acquired by Johnson & Johnson, as well as at Bain and Company, a management consulting firm. Ms. King currently serves on the board of directors of Novavax, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company. Ms. King was appointed by Maryland’s governor as chair of the Maryland Life Sciences Advisory Board and served in that capacity from 2013 to 2015. She also currently serves on the board of the University of Maryland BioPark. She received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Source material: SEC submissions metadata and DEF 14A proxy filings from EDGAR. Last updated: 2026-03-22