Speakers

Mary Anne Heino
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Mary Anne Heino

President & CEO

Mary Anne Heino (President & CEO) brings to Lantheus 30 years of diverse pharmaceutical industry experience. Joining Lantheus in April 2013 as Chief Commercial Officer, Ms. Heino was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in March 2015 and to President and Chief Executive Officer in August 2015. Prior to joining Lantheus, Ms. Heino led Angelini Labopharm LLC and Labopharm USA in the roles of President and Senior Vice President of World Wide Sales and Marketing.

Before that, Ms. Heino served in numerous capacities at Centocor, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson Company, including Vice President Strategic Planning and Competitive Intelligence, Vice President Sales, Executive Director Customer Relationship Management and Senior Director Immunology Marketing. Ms. Heino began her professional career with Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. as a Sales Representative in June 1989 and worked her way up to the role of Field Sales Director in 1999.

Ms. Heino received her Master’s in Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University. She earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from the City University of New York and a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently on the Board of Directors for MassMEDIC, an industry association that serves the MedTech community of Massachusetts, and serves on the Executive Committee for the Massachusetts Business Roundtable (MBR).

Robert Marshall
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Robert Marshall

CFO & Treasurer

Robert “Bob” Marshall (CFO & Treasurer) joined Lantheus as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer in September 2018. Mr. Marshall brings to the Company more than 30 years of finance experience, including in M&A, capital markets and investor relations.  Prior to joining Lantheus, Mr. Marshall spent 16 years with Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZBH), a global medical device company with a leading position in musculoskeletal health.  He held various senior leadership roles, including Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Treasurer, and most recently as Vice President, Americas Finance, for the U.S., Canadian and Latin American commercial markets.  Prior to Zimmer Biomet, Bob was employed with Brown & Williamson Tobacco, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, p.l.c., in Louisville, Kentucky, where he held several positions of increasing responsibility. Mr. Marshall holds a Master of Business Administration from Indiana University, South Bend, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Notre Dame. Bob also holds the CFA designation.

Paul Blanchfield
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Paul Blanchfield

Chief Commercial Officer

Paul Blanchfield (Chief Commercial Officer) serves as our Chief Commercial Officer, having joined Lantheus in January 2020.  Prior to Lantheus, Mr. Blanchfield worked at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. where he served as the Head of the U.S. Immunology Business Unit and managed a multi-billion dollar P&L covering multiple rare diseases products. Prior to his time at Takeda, Mr. Blanchfield served in several different roles at Shire Plc across almost 6 years, including as the Head of U.S. Immunology, General Manager of Nordic-Baltics, Head of Corporate Strategy, and Chief of Staff to the CEO. In his time at Shire, Mr. Blanchfield launched multiple products, worked across nine different countries, oversaw a restructuring to increase commercial focus and reduce costs, and led efforts in M&A, corporate defense, integration, and long-term corporate and portfolio strategy. Prior to his time at Shire, Mr. Blanchfield worked at McKinsey & Company for 5 years, where he focused on health care, marketing, and sales. Mr. Blanchfield earned an MBA / MA in Education from Stanford University and an AB in Economics from Duke University.

Jean-Claude Provost
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Jean-Claude Provost

M.D., Interim Chief Medical Officer

Dr Provost brings to the Company more than 30 years of experience in international development of therapeutic drugs and diagnostic agents, including radiopharmaceuticals and contrast media agents. During his career he has consistently demonstrated successful management of global research and development of products at all phases, from discovery to post-marketing life cycle management.

Dr. Provost joined Lantheus from his firm, Theranostics Consulting, where he provides research and development, medical and strategic consulting services to pharma and biotech companies and investment firms. In this capacity, he has advised Lantheus for the last three years. Previously, he was head of global R&D for GE Healthcare’s pharmaceutical diagnostics. He also held several management and clinical research positions with Pfizer, Bayer and Merck-Serono. 

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Exact Therapeutics AS, Norway and of Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC), Canada.

Dr. Provost holds degrees in Methodology and Statistics and Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Paris and a Doctorate in Medicine from the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris.
 

Etienne Montagut
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Etienne Montagut

Chief Business Officer
Etienne Montagut (Chief Business Officer) joined Lantheus as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development in September 2018. Mr. Montagut brings to the Company more than 20 years of commercial, portfolio management and business development & licensing experience. Prior to joining Lantheus, Mr. Montagut spent the last six years with GE Healthcare, the $19 billion healthcare business of GE (NYSE: GE) and a leading provider of medical imaging, monitoring, biomanufacturing, and cell and gene therapy technologies. He held various senior leadership roles at GE Healthcare, including General Manager, Global SPECT Portfolio & Director of Cardiology, Executive, Global Product Leader SPECT Neurology & Cardiology, and most recently as Executive, General Manager Molecular Imaging Greater China. Prior to GE Healthcare, while at Ipsen (Euronext: IPN; ADR: IPSEY), a global specialty-driven biopharmaceutical group focused on innovation and specialty care, Mr. Montagut held both commercial and corporate positions, including Corporate Commercial Development, Business Development & Licensing and Portfolio Management. Mr. Montagut holds a Master of Business Administration from Imperial College, London, and a Master of Business Intelligence from EGE in Paris.
Aseem Anand
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Aseem Anand

Vice President of Digital Imaging Biomarker
Aseem Anand, PhD. is the Vice President of Digital Imaging Biomarker at Lantheus. Since 2018, Dr. Anand has been leading EXINI Diagnostics AB, in Sweden, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lantheus Holdings. Under his leadership, EXINI has developed and commercially launched novel deep learning algorithms as a medical device in oncology image analysis, including the FDA cleared automated Bone Scan Index (K191262). Prior to EXINI, Dr. Anand was managing the translational research and correlative clinical trials at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY, USA. Specifically, he led the development and validation of circulating tumor cells as a prognostic biomarker in metastatic prostate cancer. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and has presented high impact abstracts in several international conferences. Dr. Anand has received his PhD in translational medicine from Lund University, Sweden and his Masters in Biotechnology from Columbia University, New York, USA.
Dr. Bela Denes
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Dr. Bela Denes

Vice President, Medical Affairs
Dr. Bela Denes (Vice President, Medical Affairs) is a board-certified urologist who practiced for 25 years and subsequently has had a distinguished industry career. Prior to joining Lantheus, Dr. Denes was the Global Medical Affairs Lead at Amgen, responsible for overseeing the medical plans, launch preparation and lifecycle management of three urology pipeline assets in development. Prior to joining Amgen, he served as Vice President of Medical Affairs at Blue Earth Diagnostics until the company’s acquisition by Bracco Imaging in August 2019. Prior to Blue Earth he spent time at Genomic Health, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Spectrum and Abbott across medical affairs and clinical development. Additionally, Dr. Denes has presented and published numerous articles, abstracts, and posters at conferences both in the U.S. and abroad.
Mark Kinarney
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Mark Kinarney

Senior Director and Head of Investor Relations
After graduate school, Mark spent nine years in equity research at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS. After several years away, Mark returned to the sell side to work in corporate access at Credit Suisse for four years. From 2016-2018, Mark worked on the Investor Relations team at Foster City-based biotech, Gilead Sciences. In late 2018, Mark joined Lantheus where he serves as Senior Director and Head of Investor Relations. Mark currently serves as Treasurer on the Board of the Boston chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI).
Michael J. Morris, MD
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Michael J. Morris, MD

Section Head, Prostate Cancer, GU Oncology Service

Dr. Morris is a prostate cancer specialist, clinical investigator, professor, and the Section Head of Prostate Cancer of the Genitourinary Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He earned his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and performed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He then completed his medical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. Morris has led numerous clinical trials but has a particular research focus on targeted therapy for prostate cancer, especially those that bridge the fields of Medical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine. In the field of therapeutics, he has focused on tumor and bone-directed radiopharmaceuticals for prostate cancer. He was part of the leadership team that developed Lu-177 PSMA-617, which is now FDA approved for men with advanced prostate cancer. He has a research focus interest in developing novel imaging technologies for metastatic prostate cancer and in credentialing imaging biomarkers. He has been a co-developer of the Prostate Cancer Working Group 2 and 3 Consensus Criteria, and prostate-specific imaging technologies such as PSMA-directed PET imaging. 

In addition, he is the Medical Director of the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium, and chairs the GU Committee of the Alliance for Oncology Trials in Oncology, an NCI-funded cooperative group for the conduct of cancer clinical trials.

E. David Crawford, MD
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E. David Crawford, MD

Urologist
E. David Crawford, MD, is a board-certified urologist who has devoted his career in medicine to educating the public about men's health issues and finding effective techniques and procedures to address prostate cancer, the most common malignancy affecting men in the United States.
Dr. Crawford is an internationally recognized expert in benign prostate hypertrophy, urologic cancers, and in particular, prostate cancer.
As a professor in the Department of Urology, he instructs medical students, residents and fellows at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Crawford has conducted research in the treatment of advanced bladder cancer, metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate, hormone refractory prostate cancer, and other areas of urological infections and malignancies. He has authored or coauthored over 810 scientific articles, published seven textbooks, authored over 60 book chapters and provided more than 2,200 educational talks for patients and physicians. He has served as editor in chief of Grand Rounds in Urology since June of 2019.
In an effort to raise public awareness about prostate health, Dr. Crawford founded the Prostate Conditions Education Council (PCEC) in 1989. The non-profit organization is comprised of a consortium of leading physicians, health educators, scientists and men's health advocates. PCEC's advocacy for free or low-cost prostate screening has affected the lives of millions of American men. He currently chairs the PCEC.
Consistently recognized as one of the Best Doctors of America for the past two decades, he has also ranked as one of the top 20 urologists in the country by Men's Health Magazine. In May of 2019, he received the presidential citation from the American Urological Association in recognition of his "tireless role in genitourinary cancer research that has benefited countless urologic cancer patients." In 2021, he was the recipient of the Merle Stringer, MD, award for excellence in medicine by the Florida State Medical Association.
He is an active member of many national and international organizations, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Urological Association (AUA) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Within the AUA, he has been a member of the Committee to Study Urologic Research Funding and the prostate cancer clinical trials subcommittee. Dr. Crawford served on the board of governors, the scientific advisory board of the Southwest Oncology Group and served as chairman of the Genitourinary Cancer Committee for 27 years.
Dr. Crawford completed a fellowship in genitourinary cancer at UC Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine and a residency in urology at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. He earned his medical degree from University of Cincinnati. Dr. Crawford is board certified in urology.