Kym White is SVP and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of Generate:Biomedicines, a company focused on the application of AI to drug discovery founded by Flagship Pioneering. She brings deep experience in corporate affairs and healthcare communications, having held leadership roles at companies spanning the healthcare sector and global communications agencies.
Before joining Generate, she spent three years within Alphabet, Google’s parent company, as a senior advisor to Verily and Isomorphic Labs, two of Alphabet’s healthcare “bets” focused on precision health and the application of AI to drug design. Previously, Kym was Chief Communications Officer (CCO) for a number of public companies including CVS Health, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Baxter. An agency veteran, Kym was the Global Sector Chair for Health at Edelman, the world’s largest public relations firm, and held the same role at Ogilvy earlier in her career. She has been named a leading healthcare influencer by PR Week and Medical Marketing & Media many times over the years and has served as a judge in many industry award competitions, including the Cannes Health Lions.
In addition to her role on the MMRF board, Kym is a member of the board of directors of Public Policy Holding Company (LON: PPHC), a group of bipartisan, premier advisory firms specializing in government affairs. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, with a B.S. in communications and political science.
