Exelixis Statement on the Passing of Two Senior Executives - Seite 2

Gisela was a joy to know and work with. She cared deeply about her colleagues and was generous with her time, knowledge, and leadership. Although she spoke softly, her words carried great weight. She had a wonderful sense of humor and was deeply admired and respected by all.

Gisela’s legacy will live on in the practice-changing therapies she brought to patients. She will also be remembered for her indelible impact on the wide group of talented clinical development, medical affairs, regulatory, and related professionals she collaborated with, managed, and mentored throughout her career. With the development of the talented teams and rigorous processes she spearheaded over the years, I have every confidence that our Product Development and Medical Affairs organization will continue to execute with a high degree of focus and urgency on our key clinical development priorities for cabozantinib, XL092, and the company’s earlier-stage pipeline. As discussed on our second quarter 2021 financial results call in August, we began a search process for our next Chief Medical Officer this summer and will provide an update when appropriate.

The team at Exelixis is close-knit, and our senior leadership team is particularly so. Having worked closely with Gisela for more than 15 years, I will miss her personally and professionally. We’ll make plans to honor Gisela in the coming weeks, but for now, my heart goes out to her family, especially her husband and her two treasured Golden Retrievers.”

Jon’s Impact

Added Dr. Morrissey: “Jon joined Exelixis in September 2015 following two decades of commercial biopharmaceutical experience. His previous tenures included time at Gilead, where he built and led the company’s oncology sales team supporting Zydelig, and at Genentech, where he spent 13 years in a variety of sales and sales operations roles supporting products including Rituxan, Avastin, Herceptin, and Tarceva. At Exelixis, he played a central role in building out our sales organization ahead of the initial CABOMETYX launch in April 2016. Over the next six years, he led the sales team to a series of successes as CABOMETYX grew to become an oncology franchise. Our Commercial organization simply wouldn’t be what it is today without him.