Gordon Binder

Gordon M. Binder (born 1935) is an American businessman.^[1][2][3]

Gordon M. Binder
Born	1935 Missouri
Nationality	American
Education	Purdue University (B.S.E.E) Harvard Business School (M.B.A)
Occupations	Businessman investor scientist

Early life and education

Gordon Binder was born in Missouri.^[2] He graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar.^[1][2]

Career

Binder worked in managing position at Litton Industries and the Ford Motor Company.^[1][3] He served as Chief Financial Officer at the System Development Corporation.^[1][3] In 1982, he joined Amgen as CFO.^[1] From 1988 to 2000, he served as its CEO.^[1][3][4]

He is the Founder and Managing Director of Coastview Capital, a private investment firm.^[1][3][5] He also serves as Chairman of SRU Biosystems.^[6] He sits on the Boards of Directors of Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Cellular Genomics, PhRMA and the Biotechnology Industry Organization.^[1][3] along with Henri Termeer.^[7]

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology and the American Enterprise Institute.^[1][3][8][9] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.^[10]

Bibliography

• Science lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management (with Philip Bashe, Harvard Business Review Press, 2008)