President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman
Revolution Medicines
Mark A. Goldsmith, M.D., Ph.D. has served on our Board of Directors and as our Chief Executive Officer and President since November 2014, and was appointed as Chair of the Board in 2020.
Dr. Goldsmith is a proven biotechnology leader with deep scientific background and broad company operating expertise.
From 2009 to July 2021, Dr. Goldsmith served on the board of directors of Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company prior to its acquisition by MorphoSys AG, where he also served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2012, as Chairman from 2012 to June 2016 and from March 2017 to July 2021, and as Interim Executive Chairman from June 2016 to March 2017. Dr. Goldsmith was previously a Partner with Third Rock Ventures, a life sciences venture capital firm, from 2013 to 2015, and a Venture Partner with Third Rock Ventures from 2012 to 2013. Dr. Goldsmith served as President and Chief Executive Officer and on the board of directors of Global Blood Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company, from 2012 to 2014. Dr. Goldsmith also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nurix, Inc., a drug discovery company, from 2012 to 2014, and on its board of directors from 2012 to 2016. Dr. Goldsmith has served on the board of directors of Nura Bio Inc. since February 2018. Before entering the private sector, Dr. Goldsmith led a medical research laboratory at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, practiced medicine on the faculty of the School of Medicine of the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco General Hospital, and was a consultant to leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Dr. Goldsmith received an A.B. in Biology from Princeton University and an M.D. and Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the School of Medicine of the University of California, San Francisco.