Arthur Levinson

Arthur D. Levinson serves as Chairman of Genentech Inc. He  joined Genentech in 1980 as a research scientist. He became vice  president of Research Technology in 1989, vice president of  Research in 1990, senior vice president of Research in 1992, and  senior vice president of Research and Development in 1993. He  served as Chief Executive Officer of Genentech from 1995 to  2009, and as Chairman of Genentech since 1999. 

Dr. Levinson is a director of Google Inc. and a director of Apple  Inc. In addition, Dr. Levinson serves on the Board of Scientific  Consultants of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, on  the Industrial Advisory Board of the California Institute for  Quantitative Biomedical Research, on the Advisory Council for the  Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology, on the  Advisory Council for the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative  Genomics and on the Executive Council of TechNet. 

Levinson has authored or co-authored more than 80 scientific  articles and has been a named inventor on 11 United States  patents. Levinson received the Irvington Institute's 1999 Corporate  Leadership Award in Science and was honored the same year with  the Corporate Leadership Award from the National Breast Cancer  Coalition. He was inducted into the Biotech Hall of Fame at the  2003 Biotech Meeting of chief executive officers. BusinessWeek  named Levinson one of the “Best Managers of the Year” in 2004  and 2005, and Institutional Investor named him “America’s Best  CEO” in the biotech category four years in a row (2004-2007). In  2006, Princeton University awarded Levinson the James Madison  Medal for a distinguished career in scientific research and in  biotechnology. Also in 2006, Barron’s recognized Levinson as  one of “The World’s Most Respected CEOs,” and the Best Practice  Institute placed Levinson on their “25 Top CEOs” list. In 2008,  Levinson was elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of  Arts & Sciences. 

Levinson received his Bachelor of Science degree in molecular  biology from the University of Washington and earned a doctorate in Biochemical Sciences from Princeton University.