Greg Simon was recently the President of the Biden Cancer Initiative (BCI), an independent nonprofit organization devoted to doubling our rate of progress in preventing, detecting, diagnosing, treating and surviving cancer.
In 2016, Greg served as the Executive Director of the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force for Vice President Joe Biden. Over nine months, Greg and his team helped launch nearly eighty innovative collaborations. Greg returned to the White House after serving as Vice President Al Gore’s Chief Domestic Policy Advisor between 1993 and 1997.
Previously, Greg was the CEO of Poliwogg, a financial services company creating unique capital market opportunities in healthcare and life sciences. From 2009-2012, Greg was Senior Vice President for Worldwide Policy and Patient Engagement at Pfizer. In 2003, he co-founded with Michael Milken, FasterCures/ The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, and in 2007 with Leon and Debra Black he co-founded the Melanoma Research Alliance.
