Kathleen B. Retterson joined ELIQUENT Life Sciences, Inc. in April 2020, following a distinguished career of 35+ years in the biologics industry.

Ms. Retterson has served as site head and general manager at Amgen, Genzyme, and Charles River, where she oversaw manufacturing, QA, QC, process development, and supply chain. The majority of her professional career was spent at Amgen. Over the course of her tenure at Amgen, Ms. Retterson held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, including Site Head of Amgen’s multi-plant Thousand Oaks manufacturing site and VP/GM of Amgen’s Rhode Island facility.

Over her career, Ms. Retterson has been responsible for the successful manufacture of a number of billion-dollar biologics including EPOGEN®, Neupogen®, Aranesp®, Neulasta®, Infergen®, Enbrel®, Cerazyme®, Fabrazyme® and Myozyme®.

Ms. Retterson was a founding member of Amgen’s Sales and Marketing Department where she served as EPOGEN® product manager during the product’s first three years, and where she led the team that secured the first-ever Medicare reimbursement for a biologic.

Ms. Retterson holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University, and a master’s degree from Stanford University.