Tony Gibney was formerly the Chief Business and Strategy Officer at lveric Bio, overseeing the business development and corporate strategy for the retina-focused, biotechnology company , through the closing of the sale of Iveric to Astellas for $5.9 billion in 2023. Prior to lveric, Mr. Gibney was the CFO and CBO at FogPharma, driving the business development and finance functions of the company. Mr. Gibney served as the Chief Business Officer of Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he was responsible for corporate and portfolio strategy, business development and corporate communications and led the successful sale of Achillion to Alexion in 2020. Before Achillion, Tony Gibney was a life sciences-focused investment banker for 24 years. From 2009 through 2017, he served as a managing director and co-head of the biotechnology investment team for Leerink Partners LLC, where he was a senior leader of Leerink's biopharmaceutical investment banking franchise. From 1999 to 2009, he worked as a managing director at Merrill Lynch Inc. and executed a variety of significant financing and M&A transactions for various biotechnology companies. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Gibney was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in the firm's Healthcare Investment Banking Group. He graduated with distinction from Yale University in 1993 with a B.A. in History and Economics.