Rogério Vivaldi Coelho, M.D., M.B.A.


Board Member

Rogério Vivaldi Coelho, M.D., M.B.A. has served on our board of directors since January 2022. He retired as the president, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Sigilon Therapeutics, Inc. in December 2023. Prior to joining Sigilon, Dr. Vivaldi served as Executive Vice President and Chief Global Therapeutics Officer at Bioverativ Inc. from 2016 to 2018, where he was responsible for building and managing their commercial organization, including sales and marketing efforts for the franchise’s lead products, until it was acquired by Sanofi S.A. in 2018. From 2014 to 2016, Dr. Vivaldi served as Chief Commercial Officer at Spark Therapeutics, Inc., where he spearheaded the launch of global commercial operations, and patient advocacy, market access, and medical affairs efforts for Luxturna. Earlier, he held several positions of increasing responsibility over a 20-year career at Genzyme, most recently serving as the head of the company’s rare disease business, president of both the rare disease business and the renal & endocrine group, and as Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Latin America group. During his time at Genzyme, he led the successful approval of more than 15 orphan products in more than 20 countries.

Dr. Vivaldi earned a medical degree from the Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, after which he completed a residency in endocrinology at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and a fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital Center in New York in the department of genetics, focusing on Gaucher disease. He later became the first physician in Brazil to treat Gaucher disease using enzyme replacement therapy. In addition, Dr. Vivaldi holds an M.B.A. degree from COPPEAD, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Vivaldi’s experience as an executive officer in the life sciences industry and his extensive pharmaceutical commercialization and marketing experience with several different companies contributed to our board of directors’ conclusion that he should serve as a director of our company.

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