Gordon M. Binder (born 1935) is an American businessman.Harvard Business School
Early life and education Gordon Binder was born in Missouri. He graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar.
Career Binder worked in managing position at Litton Industries and the Ford Motor Company. He served as Chief Financial Officer at the System Development Corporation. In 1982, he joined Amgen as CFO. From 1988 to 2000, he served as its CEO.Lawrence M. Fisher, BUSINESS PEOPLE; Amgen Officer Shifts Surprise to Analysts, The New York Times, October 27, 1988
He is the Founder and Managing Director of Coastview Capital, a private investment firm.Bloomberg Businessweek: Coastview Capital He also serves as Chairman of SRU Biosystems.A Sharper Nose for Danger, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 24, 2004 He sits on the Boards of Directors of Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Cellular Genomics, PhRMA and the Biotechnology Industry Organization. along with Henri Termeer.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology and the American Enterprise Institute.The MIT Corporation He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
Bibliography Science lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management (with Philip Bashe, Harvard Business Review Press, 2008)
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